If there were a procedure to change a person's skin color, would you support trans-ethnic people having it done or would you also consider that "fucked up"?
There is; it's called tanning. Less flippantly, I don't think actual physical appearance or attributes have anything at all to do with "trans-ethnicity". Those that aren't deliberately trolling - and I'm still not sure that they aren't ALL deliberately trolling - aren't having trouble because their skin color or eye angle feels "wrong"; they're distressed because they think they would feel more comfortable in a CULTURE other than the one in which they are raised. And that's... their fucking problem. Especially in this day and age, if you genuinely want to transplant yourself into another culture, it's entirely possible. It's just not easy.
I haven't encountered enough trans-ethnic people to notice anything about them.
I haven't encountered any in real life. But every single one on the internet is a white person who's complaining about not being a PoC.
Physical and biological differences are part of sex, not gender. At least, that seems to be the most widely accepted paradigm among people who recognize that there is any difference between sex and gender.
Well, yes, but sex and gender are both spectra. There are people who genuinely feel that their brain is at odds with the assigned sex of the body into which they were born, and who chafe from a very young age against the social gender into which their assigned sex places them. There are people who are genderqueer and don't feel comfortable in either binary social gender category. There are all manner of intersex conditions which render sex nonbinary. Sex and gender interact in very complex ways.
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Date: 2013-07-21 05:55 pm (UTC)There is; it's called tanning.
Less flippantly, I don't think actual physical appearance or attributes have anything at all to do with "trans-ethnicity". Those that aren't deliberately trolling - and I'm still not sure that they aren't ALL deliberately trolling - aren't having trouble because their skin color or eye angle feels "wrong"; they're distressed because they think they would feel more comfortable in a CULTURE other than the one in which they are raised. And that's... their fucking problem. Especially in this day and age, if you genuinely want to transplant yourself into another culture, it's entirely possible. It's just not easy.
I haven't encountered enough trans-ethnic people to notice anything about them.
I haven't encountered any in real life. But every single one on the internet is a white person who's complaining about not being a PoC.
Physical and biological differences are part of sex, not gender. At least, that seems to be the most widely accepted paradigm among people who recognize that there is any difference between sex and gender.
Well, yes, but sex and gender are both spectra. There are people who genuinely feel that their brain is at odds with the assigned sex of the body into which they were born, and who chafe from a very young age against the social gender into which their assigned sex places them. There are people who are genderqueer and don't feel comfortable in either binary social gender category. There are all manner of intersex conditions which render sex nonbinary. Sex and gender interact in very complex ways.