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The term “Transracial Identity” first appeared in science around 2017.
Really? Huh. I’ve been in communities for it that date back to at least 2012.
I’m glad this is getting a proper spotlight; despite progress, even in most tolerance-heavy circles, I can’t even mention the concept of it without people pointingfingers and invalidating the whole thing based on the idea that it’s either a veiled attack on anyone (it’s not; I’ve validated transgender identity since near the beginning, and my brother is transgender) or that it’s “not plausible”. I am who I am without any intent that it comes off as challenging who anyone else is.
I’ve actually seen people banned from Lemmy for just supporting transracial people. A recent one happened just 3 days ago actually.
My theory is that a lot of the backlash wasn’t really about me being “offensive” or anything—it was rooted in transphobia. They just wouldn’t come out and say it because Lemmy leans heavily pro-transgender. So instead, they took it out on the transracial identity because that’s still seen as “safe” to attack.
This person got banned just for saying they were proud of their transracial friend. The whole thread was people hating on OP and calling OP sick. Post got removed and the user was banned from the community and their instance.
Then when they went to a diff community to ask about why the hate, mods removed that post too. Lemmy’s definitely not a transracial-friendly space yet:
Really? Huh. I’ve been in communities for it that date back to at least 2012.
I’m glad this is getting a proper spotlight; despite progress, even in most tolerance-heavy circles, I can’t even mention the concept of it without people pointing fingers and invalidating the whole thing based on the idea that it’s either a veiled attack on anyone (it’s not; I’ve validated transgender identity since near the beginning, and my brother is transgender) or that it’s “not plausible”. I am who I am without any intent that it comes off as challenging who anyone else is.
I’ve actually seen people banned from Lemmy for just supporting transracial people. A recent one happened just 3 days ago actually.
My theory is that a lot of the backlash wasn’t really about me being “offensive” or anything—it was rooted in transphobia. They just wouldn’t come out and say it because Lemmy leans heavily pro-transgender. So instead, they took it out on the transracial identity because that’s still seen as “safe” to attack.
This person got banned just for saying they were proud of their transracial friend. The whole thread was people hating on OP and calling OP sick. Post got removed and the user was banned from the community and their instance.
Then when they went to a diff community to ask about why the hate, mods removed that post too. Lemmy’s definitely not a transracial-friendly space yet:
I can relate to this in my own way all too well.