| shio said: My point is, regardless of how you call yourself, your race will always be determined by your blood, not who you hang out with. It is the same the few men that feel they should be women and try to have a sex change operation. They'll never be women, even after the operation. In comparison, there's no way for a person to change race (what MJ did isn't the same) |
Neither of these is true. The way you identify yourself has a lot to do with how people identify you - if Obama identifies as black, it only makes sense to identify him as black, and not get hung up on the fact that his mother was a honky.
Similarly, you don't get to pick and choose gender identity, which is different from sex - gender identity is a social construct, rather than an identification of your chromosomes or your private parts. If I knew a girl and she decided to live her life as a man named Ted, then by God, I'm going to work on changing my gendered pronouns in reference to Ted. That's my duty as a person who respects him (see?).
Sorry, shio. You don't get to choose how people identify themselves. There's no absolute qualifier for identity.
