Transgender Today, Transracial Tomorrow? A Biological and Sociological Perspective.

As a result of the fervent advocacy seen over the years regarding LGBTQIA+ rights and awareness, we have identified and accepted that gender is a social construct, that gender norms are learned and aren’t necessarily linked to sex (sexual genitalia,) and that people are free to identify with the gender(s) that they feel most accurately and authentically represents them. Given western societies’ new sensibilities on gender identity, could our views on race evolve in similar ways? In other words, could our “racial identities,” too, become something we choose depending on how we identify at any given time, instead of categorizations <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/2017/i-didn-t-know-i-was-black-until-i-moved-to-canada-1.4219157" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">projected onto us</a> by society based on social norms and <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/race-is-a-social-construct-scientists-argue/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">misinformed biological assumptions</a>? To some, this may seem unrealistic and impractical. But is it really that farfetched? Let’s contemplate the following. <a href="https://medium.com/@jayD211/transgender-today-transracial-tomorrow-89bea773089f">Website</a>