{"id":60323,"date":"2020-11-20T02:25:19","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T02:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60323"},"modified":"2020-11-20T02:25:49","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T02:25:49","slug":"why-we-shouldnt-compare-transracial-to-transgender-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60323","title":{"rendered":"Why We Shouldn’t Compare Transracial to Transgender Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why We Shouldn’t Compare Transracial to Transgender Identity<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Boston Review: A Political and Literary Forum<\/a>
\n2020-11-18<\/p>\n

Robin Dembroff<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
\nYale University<\/p>\n

Dee Payton<\/strong><\/a>, Ph.D. Candidate in Philosophy
\nRutgers, The State University of New Jersey<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/a>From left: Jessica Krug<\/a>, Nkechi Amare Diallo (n\u00e9e Rachel Dolezal<\/a>), Caitlyn Jenner<\/a>, Laverne Cox<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Editors\u2019 Note:<\/strong> This essay is the first installment in a new series, Racial Identity & Racial Fraud<\/strong><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Unlike gender inequality, racial inequality primarily accumulates across generations. Transracial identification undermines collective reckoning with that injustice.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cCall me Caitlyn.\u201d With this phrase, emblazoned on Vanity Fair\u2019s<\/em> June 2015 cover, Caitlyn Jenner<\/a> revealed her transgender identity to the world. But these words were not only a revelation; they also were a demand. Most obviously, they demanded that others call Jenner by a new name. But even more importantly, they demanded that others recognize Jenner as having a certain identity: woman<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Reactions to this demand were predictable. Jenner was warmly embraced and lauded by many for her decision to\u2014as Jenner put it\u2014live as her \u201cauthentic self.\u201d Transgender activist and writer Laverne Cox<\/a> wrote that Jenner\u2019s \u201ccourage to move past denial into her truth so publicly . . . [is] beyond beautiful to me.\u201d President Barack Obama<\/a>, retweeting Jenner\u2019s announcement, praised her \u201ccourage to share [her] story.\u201d Hundreds of thousands of others left encouraging comments on Jenner\u2019s social media. Within these reactions, an idea repeatedly surfaced: Jenner\u2019s demand for recognition as a woman is legitimate because Jenner is<\/em> a woman…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unlike gender inequality, racial inequality primarily accumulates across generations. Transracial identification undermines collective reckoning with that injustice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,666,8,6462,6941,20],"tags":[11064,26524,20670,31228,31107,31229,26364,20241,31227],"class_list":["post-60323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-gaylesbian","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-philosophy","category-usa","tag-boston-review","tag-boston-review-a-political-and-literary-forum","tag-caitlyn-jenner","tag-dee-payton","tag-jessica-krug","tag-laverne-cox","tag-nkechi-amare-diallo","tag-rachel-dolezal","tag-robin-dembroff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60323"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60327,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60323\/revisions\/60327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}