Why are most trans people white?

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[–]MarkTwainiac 15 insightful - 2 fun15 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

OP, I don't think it's accurate to say "most trans people are white" and that "being trans is most prevalent in the white community."

Yes, in countries such as the USA, Canada and the UK, the bulk of heterosexual AGPs who come out as trans in midlife have always been predominantly white and fairly well off. This seems to be the case for so many of today's young TIFs in those countries as well.

But in Asia, pretty much all the gay guys who for generations have identified, or been stigmatized and shunted into a special second-class sex caste, as lady boys, Fa'afafine, Hijra and other "third genders" have always been non-white. Because in the parts of the world they come from, being white is not the norm.

Similarly, a very large proportion of the the gay males in Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa who in the past were transvestites and drag queens - and today are likely to identify as transwomen - have always been of races other than white.

Many of the most prominent, powerful and highly celebrated trans activists in the US and UK today are men of non-white ethnicity: Laverne Cox, Munroe Bergdorf; Eliz Warren campaign aide Ashlee Marie Preston; Human Rights Campaign women's HIV ambassador Blossom Brown; Shea Diamond; "Latinx trans activist" Bamby Salcedo; Andree Jenkins; Alok Vain Menon; Amarou and tons of others. The new communications director for the USA's Ms. Foundation is a young black male who IDs as a transwoman.

In the USA, the TIM athletes to have made the biggest inroads into women's sports at the HS and NCAA uni/college level so far have been black males: Cece Telfer, Terry Miller and Andraya Yearwood. These guys have been widely celebrated in the mainstream media, and by organizations such as the ACLU, for "bravely" being the first boys/men to trounce women in sports.

Fallon Fox, the misogynistic MMA fighter who boasts about nearly killing a woman in the ring with his fists and male body, is bi-racial.

Kricket Thunderpussy Nimmons, the TIM career petty criminal whose taxpayer-funded "transition" was chronicled in fawning front-page coverage in the NY Times in 2015, is a black male. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/us/kricket-nimmons-transgender-surgery.html

Pearl Love, who got a great deal of attention from the Democrats - including Hillary Clinton - and the press in 2016 when Love complained of experiencing transphobia on the NYC subway, is Asian - not white. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tasneemnashrulla/this-trans-woman-recorded-being-allegedly-attacked-on-a-trai https://youtu.be/-a7faqkUGLk

Today, black TIMs in particular are being centered, given the spotlight, and portrayed as the "natural leaders" in BLM, USA Democratic party politics and a wide variety of other "social justice" causes:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/27/us/politics/black-trans-lives-matter.html

https://transgenderlawcenter.org/black-trans-women-black-trans-femmes-leading-living-fiercely

In Western countries where there is racial diversity, a good number of girls and young women "of color" have gotten caught up in trans ideology and have identified as trans. In part because they often come from religious backgrounds and specific subcultures that are extremely sexist and anti-lesbian.

The young woman in the UK who is currently taking legal action against the NHS for putting her on puberty blockers, testosterone and encouraging her to have her breasts removed, is AFIAK of mixed-race or "of color."

In the US and other countries, there are TONs of non-white young people of both sexes caught up in transmania.

YouTube has tons of videos about black transmen. Here are just a few:

https://youtu.be/QAsGfDASTTI https://youtu.be/JAuBtcHDlcA https://youtu.be/yEMAfq9SgCM https://youtu.be/fKNusEB32Z8 https://youtu.be/hNZkElyApew

[–]luckystar 11 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I agree with this. There is a really sexist, homophobic strain of creepy white dudes with anime profile pics identifying as "trans" nowadays, but many different cultures have terms for what GC would call "HSTS" trans people -- though some of the terms, like hijra, are quite derogatory and in general these "third gender" males (never heard of one for AFAB people) are afforded a low status in society.

[–]Agodachi 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

You bring up really great points and resources. Do you have any idea why other racial and ethnic groups transition? I'm sure in the middle east it stems from homophobia. I'm not too sure of other places like Thailand.

[–]Astrid2448 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

In most of these countries, these third genders are used on men who aren’t masculine enough to be considered real men. It isn’t some progressive thing, it’s an example of men like gay men being excluded by other men. They are given a low status and they are not seen as truly another sex, they’re seen as lesser men.

It’s really frustrating for me to see people use things like Hijra as evidence when Indians don’t even really support gay people. They generally think gay is caused by hormonal issues and that trans is an example of crazy white people. No one in India really believes that there are all these other genders, in fact they laugh at what places like the US do.