Okay, listen folks. Tying #gender to any arbitrary body part is still terf talk, even if you try to refraim it. "Gender is rooted in brain structure," stays brown terf bullshit, even if you try to recolor it with, "and I believe that anyone knows their gender best." It's called #biologism and #bioessentialism. What you probaly mean is sex, but then we're talking about an entirely different category here. Gender is not sex! Tying gender to any aspect of a human body is and will ever be arbitrary. Why boobs or genitals? Why not hair color or the color of my skin? Oh, wait the later is already claimed by #racism. Sorry, getting sarcastic here. But you get the point. Gender is not tied to body. Gender is a social construct and has nothing to do with biology. And even the biological categories are just artifical categories made up by humans, who like to put anything in boxes in an desperate attempt to descripe the vast biodiversity around us. Nature can't be sortet in neat little boxes.
That is, what terfs don't get. They think, this kind of stuff is "natural law" when in fact nature doesn't play by the rules we humans have created.

I think most would agree, that both #gender and #race are social constructs with no base in biology. Claiming otherwise leads to #biologism. Without the artificial invention of race there would be no #rasim today.

This leads me to the following question: If both are social constructs, why do we accept for gender, that it's okay for an individual to change their body with hormones and surgeries according to their prefered gender expression, but not for race?

I am explicitly NOT talking about blackfacing here. I am talking about #transracialism and cases like the ones of Rachel Dolezal, Martina Big and Oli London. We accept #transgender as a valid #identity. So why not #transracial identities?

I recently read #Identitti by Mithu Sanyal, a novel that has exactly this question at the core of its plot. The author disucusses this question over 400 pages long without giving a clear answer, but provides plenty of orguments for pro and contra.

I doubt that this society is ready for this discussion. But it's such a faszinating question. I am born with the gender I have. Why not also with the racial identity I have? As it happens, I am transgender and cisracial (so to say), but what would be if the later were not the case?

#Biologism #gender https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/01419870.2022.2102933