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TL;DR Transracialism is inaccurate and reduces a race down to stereotypes
Transracialism is the idea that someone can identify themselves as belonging to a race different from their birth race. Some feel that they can ‘belong’ to another race because of how much they identify with or admire that race’s culture and traditions. However, in reality, one's racial identity cannot be determined by how much one admires the culture associated with any particular race. [Race is strictly determined by one's genetics] (https://www.genome.gov/genetics-glossary/Race#:~:text=Race%20is%20also%20used%20to,groups%20and%20not%20between%20them).
Race is much deeper than embracing others' foods, clothes, and traditions. Anyone can adopt the culture associated with a racial group, but they cannot adopt their struggles as well. Someone fascinated with a culture can indulge in as many traditions as they please, but will not fall victim to the same stereotypes and negative perceptions as those who genetically belong to said race. At the end of the day, claiming to belong to a group outside of your birth origins is not only inaccurate but also a direct way of diminishing the struggles of said race, reducing their culture and traditions down to stereotypes.
Do the same arguments apply to transgenderism?
Also - is race strictly determined by one's genetics? Is race not also a cultural construct?
What do you think of people who go to great lengths, literal surgery, to transition? It might still be considered offensive, but if absolutely nothing else, this demonstrates their sincerity.
Rachel Dolezal, a (white) transracial woman, was able to present so convincingly as a black woman that, not only was she accepted as black by the local black community, she was accepted as an ambassador on their behalf. So, there's no reason to think that Ms Dolezal wasn’t subject to the same racial socialisation or vulnerable to the same racist abuse. Generally, nobody has any idea (including you) what your DNA indicates about you.
if somebody can have body dysmorphia or sex dysphoria (usually called "gender" dysphoria), then i can't imagine why someone couldn't have race dysphoria. now, could some people be mistaking dysphoria for intense appreciation for a different culture or race (as sort of argued by Pricilla below)? of course, but i'm not sure if i'd say genuine race dysphoria never happens. brains are weird.
"brains are weird" ✅✅✅
You may not approve of it, but transracial people are totally a thing. Body dysmorphia can apply to literally anything.
Ever hear of otherkin? They identify as a species other than human.
so if transwomen are being counted towards the crime rate that females commit does that mean we should include transblack people in the crime rate for blacks?
People tend to forget that transracial doesn’t mean people changing races. It’s used to describe the experience of people of one race growing up, being adopted by, raised, etc., by another race. Transracial is real, people just bastardized the term.
According to the English dictionary, Oxford Languages, transition emerged in late Middle English as an anglicisation of the Latin transitio from the Latin transire, meaning 'go across'.
Trans and tra are both prefixes derived from transition and are found in many words such as transatlantic, transubstantiation, transportation, trajectory, traverse and traduce.
You can't bastardise a prefix.
Furthermore, words can be accurately understood to mean multiple things and even contradictory things. For example, 'dust' is a contronym; it can mean to add dust or remove dust, depending on the context.
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