# Transgender - transracial. What is the essential difference?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 3, 2021, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transgender-transracial-what-is-the-essential-difference/932117 "2021-02-03T10:45:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![DemonTree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demontree/32/8646_2.png) [@DemonTree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DemonTree)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2021, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transgender-transracial-what-is-the-essential-difference/932117/305 "2021-02-09T12:18:55Z")

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> [@iiandyiiii](#):
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> Because I don’t trust a white person who would do this. I think the bar to clear to assume anything other than bad faith (for a white person who tried this) is monumentally high. White people don’t, and shouldn’t, get to claim that they/we are not white. We’re white. That comes with a lot of privileges, and also responsibility – the responsibility to try and dismantle whiteness (the system, not the race). Pretending we’re not white is pretty much the opposite of this. Pretending we’re not white is a slap in the face to those who have actually suffered from racism and discrimination.

Replace black and white with woman and man and you sound exactly like a transphobe.

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