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?