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[–][deleted] 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

It makes total sense to me. If we accept that some people are born into the wrong bodies, then it must follow that skin tone is part of that as well. In fact, on the scale of things that one can feel dysphoric about, skin color is much less of a stretch compared with sex characteristics.

Blackface is the new womanface.

[–]Haylstorm 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Skin colour makes way more sense to me. What if you're adopted and raised by a black couple in black culture? Surely you'd be 'culturally' black then? You'd probably feel like you'd fit in better with them if you were black too?

[–]ID10T[S] 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

[–]Haylstorm 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Lol.

I do think it gets complicated like that. Are you going to deny a mixed child being black because they look too white? They've grown up in the same house as siblings who might be 'black enough' and they've experienced the same things. Same with the adoption thing. Unless someone thinks skin colour means you don't absorb culture haha.