Rachel Dolezal Changes Her Name To Nkechi Amare Diallo

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45. One is based on biology, the other is not.

Gender identity is neurological, generally formed in utero. Trans people are objectively the gender they identify as, backed up by numerous scientific studies. In fact, "trans" is a bit of a misnomer - a trans woman/man was never a man/woman to begin with (transition is simply making the choice to conform with the social fashions of their gender, which is natural for everyone), she was just born with biological male parts. Yes, this seems like they're the same thing, but if a woman caught a disease that made her sprout a dick and balls, she would not magically cease to be a woman.

Race is 95% sociological, created for one group to extract resources and labor from another group, and is an ex post facto sorting hierarchy based on the amount of melanin in the skin.

Why does that matter? Because race only exists as an experience that other people do to people of color, while gender exists as an objective biological, neurological, scientific reality. Therefore, "Blackness" can only make sense in the context of the sociological experience of being classified into a certain spot of the hierarchy, therefore being "transracial" is incoherent, because "race" is incoherent outside of the experiences created by the artificial, socially constructed melanin hierarchy. While we celebrate "Blackness", this celebration is defensive in nature against a system that has both grouped us in a spot on a hierarchy, and made us a lower level, demeaned, dehumanized class. That's why Rachel can't be "black", because people with a lot of melanin are not born "black", they are made "black" by racism, and if you haven't experienced racism, you really can't be black.

With that said, if racism is ever defeated for good, it won't matter if someone without melanin identifies with whatever it is people with melanin do, because presumably there'd be no racist experience to form the basis for the hierarchical separation.