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she-is-ovarit · 7 months

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Identifying as.

This is Rachel Dolezal, who legally changed her name to Nkechi Amare Diallo. Dolezal is a white woman who identifies as black and insists that she is transracial. Growing up, her religious white parents adopted four black babies, claiming that they "saved them from being aborted", and routinely delivered strict punishments to their kids including Dolezal. Dolezal does not seem to have a good relationship with her parents and, based on interviews, wanted to distance herself from them and distance herself from rural white culture.

"I've never questioned being a girl or woman, for example, but whiteness has always felt foreign to me, for as long as I can remember. I didn't choose to feel this way or be this way, I just am. What other choice is there than to be exactly who we are?"

She apparently "passed as black" for several years before her parents came out and said that she was white and is identifying as a black woman, and she was asked in a TV interview if she was African American and responded with "I don't understand the question". She taught Africana Studies at Eastern Washington University. She crafted a fake story in growing up as black and has argued that she experiences race-based related hate crimes. She darkens her skin and gets perms and started using hair products she observed her adopted black sibling to use. She lied about her father being black and lied that her black adopted brother was her son.

I hope that as details of Dolezal's story are read about, we are able to understand that tanning white skin does not make someone a black person, that blackface is wrong and racist. I hope we recognize that what makes someone black isn't a collection of racial stereotypes, isn't based on feeling a kinship with black people more than with white people, and that being black isn't based on not feeling a connection with white culture. I hope we understand that a black person cannot identify out of racial oppression, and that a white person cannot identify out of white privilege.

Jewel Shuping, age 38 now, was born healthy but dreamed of being blind since age 13. She stated her mother would tell stories about finding her walking down dark hallways at age 3, and mentioned that by age 6 the thought of being blind comforted her. When she was a teenager, Shuping bought a white cane and learned to read braille, becoming fluent in it by age 20.

She claims to have asked a psychologist to pour bleach in her eyes so she could fulfill her lifelong dream of being blind, and that the psychologist "understood her" and agreed to do so after giving her numbing eye drops to help with the pain (which was not ultimately helpful). She deliberately waited to seek medical attention so doctors were unable to save her eyesight. Gradually, over the course of six months, she became blind.

What Shuping has is considered a real mental health condition called Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID), a rare condition in which people who are born without disabilities believe with conviction that the should be disabled. There is another name for this in political activist circles, termed "transableism".

"I went blind on purpose, but I don't feel it was a choice."

Several other people with BIID are pretending to be paralyzed to use wheelchairs, with many not being driven to the point of causing harm to themselves to become disabled but instead living full lives faking being disabled.

I hope that as details of the stories of people pretending to be disabled are read about, we are able to understand that feeling like oneself should be disabled is an incredibly serious mental health condition and does not really mean that a person is "disabled inside". I hope we recognize that identifying as disabled does not make someone disabled, and that feeling a kinship with disabled people or a comfort in the thought of being disabled does not mean a person truly is or should become disabled. I hope we understand how people with mental health disorders claiming to be disabled can place further strain on resources and accommodations provided to disabled people. I hope we understand that inflicting pain, disfigurement, or physical altercations on healthy people to "help them physically match how they feel" is an inhumane way to treat a mental health condition.

Paul Wolscht, who changed his name to Stefonknee Wolscht, was married to a woman for over 20 years and fathered 7 children before deciding to live life identifying as a six year old little girl. Living as a six year old little girl allows Wolscht to escape depression and suicidal thoughts because Wolscht gets to now play - even when in jail in solitary confinement for nine days for an undisclosed reason.

“If I’m six-years-old, I don’t have to think about adult stuff.”

Wolscht still drives and drinks coffee, but does so feeling and identifying as a six year old.

Emile Ratelband, age 69, petitioned the courts to allow him to change his age to 20 years younger because he "does not feel" 69 years old. Ratelband has argued that he did not feel comfortable with his date of birth, that age 69 did not accurately reflect his mental state, and that at age 69 he experiences limits.

“When I’m 69, I am limited. If I’m 49, then I can buy a new house, drive a different car,” he said. “I can take up more work. When I’m on Tinder and it says I’m 69, I don’t get an answer. When I’m 49, with the face I have, I will be in a luxurious position.”

Ratelband even asserted that doctors have told him he has the body of a man 20 years younger, and he said that he was willing to renounce his right to a pension. He argues that if people are able to legally change their sex on documents, there is no reason why he should not be able to change his age.

I hope that as we read these stories of people identifying as a different age, we are able to understand that feeling like you are 20 years younger or 40 years younger does not really make you that age. I hope that we understand that even though identifying as a different age might help avoid suicidal thoughts, being discriminated against on dating apps, or denied resources, it does not really change biologically what is. I hope we understand that there are also broader societal and legal consequences to being able to legally change one's age. That an adult might identify as a certain age to trick kids into trusting them so they can sexually abuse them, and/or that allowing an adult to legally consider themselves a different age would make it easier for adult predators to gain legal access to kids in environments in which they would normally be socially and legally discouraged from being in.

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uwameshi · 2 months

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Saying being trace is racist is like saying being transgender is sexist. I get it, new things may make you uncomfortable, but you need to stop with your bias. Trace individuals aren't hurting anyone, the same way Transgender people are not hurting anyone.

Heart breaking to see so many tracephobic Trans people.

#rq 🌈🍓#trace #transrace #transracial #pro rq 🌈🍓#radqueer

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thee-radio-host-is-a-kookaburra · 11 months

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Hey. If you’re doomscrolling in this tag, stop. Drink some water. Go look at something you actually want to. Remember, no one in their right mind is going to accept these people, so stop subjecting yourself to racism, ableism, transphobia, etc when you could be doing something better. These people are against recovery, so if you really want to piss them off, the best way is to be kind to yourself.

#radqueers piss off. idc if i’m crosstagging your community literally should not exist #radqueer #transabled #transrace #transracial #transage #transid #transx

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radflagqueer · 3 months

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★ Racespike ★

A trace label where one primarily identifies as a certain race, but occasionally experiences "spikes" to another.

#racespike #transrace #transracial #diarace #diaracial #trace #rq 🌈🍓#radqueer coining #radqueer #pro rq 🌈🍓#transid coining #transid

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taboowinters · 25 days

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NexoWhite Coining!

Nexowhite is a transwhite term where one is transwhite in a way that is nonhuman or unlike the traditional white person on earth! This could be used for a number of things, like being a pony from MLP whose fur is white, or being an alien from a different planet whose species skin color is white!

The stripes are all different skin colors ofc! I tried to stay as light as possible but I adore gradients so I did go darker on the top one! And the wand symbol is to show the magical / nonhuman-ness of this term!

I put no dni on my terms and anyone can use it! Radqueer, anti, blankqueer, whatever! I don't mind, because terms aren't just terms, their identities! And we don't police identities in this household!

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transx-mogai-cafe · 1 month

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📚That Time There was a Transracial (Trace) College Course📙

Okay so I've been going down a bit of a rabbit hole today and felt compelled to share my findings. I clearly remembered that, off the back of Nkechi Diallo's forcible outing as trace in 2015, a couple years later there was a smaller scandal related to a college course that delved deeper into this idea on an academic level. I remember thinking, even though at the time I was against being trace, that it would have at least been interesting to attend. There are only a few reactionary articles from mid-2017 reporting on it, as the course has been scrubbed clean from the website of the Rhode Island School of Design. But thanks to the power of the Waybackmachine, I was able to take a look at it!

The faculty who taught the course is named Joon Lee, a Korean-American queer transsexual! Unfortunately I still haven't been able to pinpoint if he considers himself trace in some way, although he appears to have in-depth studies on black feminism, so it's possible that's related in some way? Just pure speculation. Thankfully he still works there even though this particular course is no longer offered. Here's his website!

But what's interesting is that this wasn't a new course in 2017; I found the same class (although called something else) in a course list from 2009-2010 and even one as far back as 2005-2006!!!

I don't really have a conclusion to this little deep dive except I'm sad I wasn't born early enough to attend this class. 🫠 These are some really interesting concepts I'd love to see actually discussed metacontextually and it's upsetting this was being talked about as early as at least the mid 00s but then got roped into the tracephobic hype.

#transx #transid #trace #transrace #transracial #rhode island school of design #college #college course

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doll-queer · 19 days

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just found out the person i love is an very strong anti

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what do i do? I know they’re not gonna truly accept me

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mistymeow69 · 3 months

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leaving this here

#radqueer #rcta #esu #diaracial #diaethnic #ecta #ctdr #ctde #rsu #transracial #transrace #transethnic #diarace #race isnt real #race is a social construct

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transmexican · 3 days

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If you’re transMexican, I love you!

You��re no less Mexican than any cis Mexican person 💚🤍❤️

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uwameshi · 2 months

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As an adopted child, I hope every trace person is comfortable with using the term Transracial. It's for you! Reclaim it! Ily!

#rq 🌈🍓#trace #transrace #transracial #pro rq 🌈🍓#radqueer

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dykeluc · 2 months

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the term transracial belongs ONLY to adoptees.

Race fakers, this term is NOT for you. Seek some actual therapy because you are delusional.

You are racist and hurt actual POC people.

#transracial #trans racial #trans race #transrace #trace #rfta #race change #race change community

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radflagqueer · 3 months

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★ Puprace ★

When your race is affected by being a pup/dog

★ Catrace ★

When your race is affected by being a cat

#puprace #catrace #otherrace #transrace #transracial #diarace #diaracial #trace #radqueer #rq #radqueer coining #rq 🌈🍓#transid #transid coining

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rqpositivity · 1 month

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i love you tranracials/trace people

#pro radqueer #radqueer #pro transid #transid #transracial

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maxrqstuff · 19 days

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Non-Contrastery!! Alt name for: Non-White-Non-PoC

Non = Not

Contrastery from Contrast = the shades of the neutral skincolor. Due it being just orange in different shades.

Someone who does not identifies with the White/Black-Person of Color Binary.

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Non-Contrastery flag:

Based on the Trace Flag but in Red:

Representing the on how all non-contrastery people, regardless of their bodily skintone.

Red: non-white/bipoc binary

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Xeno-Contrastery

When someone is non-contrastery but in a xenic way

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com-contrastery/plex-contrastery

someone who is non-contrastery but in a complex way.

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AltPoC/PoCNC

PoC Non-conforming

Someone who identifies as a person of color but doesn’t conform to the label.

It falls under the R/ENC umbrella

White: Non-Conformity

Bage & Brown: Neutral Skin color

Black: R/ENC

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Non Conforming Complex Non-Contrastery PoC (NCCNCPOC ??????? XD)

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doll-queer · 2 months

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I Love you individual who is transabled

I Love you individual who is trace

I Love you individual who is transage

I Love you individual who is transharmed

I Love you individual who is transharmful

I Love you individual who is transspecies

I Love you individual who is transoccupation

I Love you individual who is transaesthetic

I Love all of you

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