5/29/2023 0 Comments The South by Adolph L. Reed Jr.![]() ![]() Their contention is that one kind of claim to an identity at odds with culturally constructed understandings of the identity appropriate to one's biology is okay but that the other is not - that it's OK to feel like a woman when you don't have the body of a woman and to act like (and even get yourself the body of) a woman but that it's wrong to feel like a black person when you're actually white and that acting like you're black and doing your best to get yourself the body of a black person is just lying. ![]() The comparisons between Dolezal and Republican Jenner (I've decided to opt for that referent because it is an identity continuous between "Bruce" and "Caitlyn" and is moreover the one most meaningful to me) began almost instantly, particularly as a flood of mass-mediated Racial Voices who support the legitimacy of transgender identity objected strenuously to suggestions that Dolezal's representation, and apparent perception, of herself as black is similar to Bruce Jenner's perception of himself as actually Caitlyn. By far the most intellectually and politically interesting thing about the recent "expose" of Spokane, WA, NAACP activist Rachel Dolezal's racial status is the conundrum it has posed for racial identitarians who are also committed to defense of transgender identity. ![]()
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