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Originally Posted by Livia

I love the definitive "no" that this thread is throwing back. Who makes the decisions?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/pe...-a7653131.html

Are you suggesting that being transracial is a real thing that people can innately be? If so why? have you read any scientific papers on it or just this womans story.
I was very interested in that Rachel woman a few years back. And although the parralells that people draw between race and gender appear to be nonsense for the many reasons above that you've dismissed with this one link(?), I'd love to read something that suggests otherwise?
I did read once that her mindset of her identifying as black is most likely linked to her traumatic childhood where her brother(? Forgot who tbf) forced her to eat her own vomit, and the researcher suggested that it makes sense that is likely why she wants to identify as a group that she also feels was, or is, suppressed by others. The same can't be said for transgenders who often grow up without any form of suppression. The parallels between the two that people make confuse me, its just entirely illogical.