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[–]levoyageur718293 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The explanation that I've heard - I don't agree with this, because I'm GC, but this is what I've heard - is that transracial is different because you can only rightfully identify as something that one of your hypothetical siblings could actually be. Since you could have a sibling of the opposite sex, you can identify as the opposite sex, but since you couldn't have a sibling of a different nationality, you can't identify as a different nationality. It has to be something you could get from your parents.

Of course, when I explained that this meant anyone could identify as "gay" without being homosexual, and that indeed that's what "spicy straight" is, I was told that I was debating in bad faith.