Quote Originally Posted by spoonitnow View Post
Let me break this down in as simple and easy to understand terms as I can for anyone who wants to know the facts of the situation and why it's a difficult scenario to work with.

1. Your first paragraph here describes someone who is transexual. Put briefly if slightly imprecisely, it's when the brain and the genitals are not of the same sex. The brains of men and women have several very distinct differences. All of this has been proven to the point that any debate at this point speaks to ignorance of the research.

2. Transgender means someone identifies as the opposite gender from the one their genitals would suggest they have. This necessarily means that all transexuals are transgendered, but not all of those who are transgendered are necessarily transexual.

3. It's difficult, but possible, to prove someone is transexual through analysis of their brain. This would also prove they are transgendered, as explained above. However, if someone is transgendered but was proven not to be transexual, there is currently no way to prove it.

4. The underlined in (3) illustrates why it's important in this discussion to distinguish between transexuals and non-transexual, transgendered individuals.

5. Race has been proven to have a genetic basis, though it's not very PC to note that this is the case because a majority of what we think of as race is cultural.

6. There is no scenario where someone's body and mind have different races in a situation that's analogous to transexuals.

7. Transracial refers to someone who identifies as a race other than their biological race.

8. There is no way to prove someone is "really" transracial in the same way that there's no way to prove someone is "really" transgendered if they are not transexual.

So here's your answer: Some people can be proven to be transgendered, but no one can be proven to be transracial.

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Good write up. This more or less satisfies what I was looking for. I can't make that great of an argument for why transracial should be treated the same as transgender, but some people think it should. Your argument is solid for why it shouldn't.