Goal: The term “Transracial Identity” first appeared in science around 2017. The people concerned identify themselves with a different ethnicity or nationality, respectively they feel a strong attraction to it, in contrast to the one they were born into. Transracial identity can possibly be compared to Transgender or Body Integrity Dysphoria. The leading question of this article is: How does “transracial identity” affect the life circumstances of those affected? Methods: A questionnaire with items about personal information and the feelings of being transracial was created. The Big-Five-Inventory-10 was used aiming at investigating parallels of personality in Transracials. In addition, Düsseldorf’s Questionnaire of Transidentity, and the Questionnaire of the Body Integrity Identity Disorder were used to find out parallels with Transgender or Body Integrity Dysphoria. Sample: The study consists of a sample of 14 subjects, who identify as transracial (average age 30 ± 8.9 years, 35.7% (n = 5) male and 64.3% (n = 9) female). Participants from nearly all ethnicities identify with nearly any other race. Results: A correlation between discontent of life and the desire to change the race could not be stated. The hypothesis that individuals, identifying with another ethnicity or race, more often suffer from a mental disease than the general population, could be accepted. However, it remains unclear whether the dissatisfaction with one’s own race can cause depression or if depression is the cause of the “transracial identity” and whether those affected believe they can solve their psychological problems by changing to a new identity. Parallels to Transgender and Body Integrity Dysphoria were found. Regarding attractivity, unhappiness with their appearance is of vital importance. Thus, transracials’ satisfaction with their bodies and faces is rather low. This can be explained by the fact that their current biological ethnicity, with which their appearance is also connected, does not correspond to the desired ethnicity.
The term “Transracial Identity” first appeared in science around 2017.
Really? Huh. I’ve been in communities for it that date back to at least 2012.
I’m glad this is getting a proper spotlight; despite progress, even in most tolerance-heavy circles, I can’t even mention the concept of it without people pointing fingers and invalidating the whole thing based on the idea that it’s either a veiled attack on anyone (it’s not; I’ve validated transgender identity since near the beginning, and my brother is transgender) or that it’s “not plausible”. I am who I am without any intent that it comes off as challenging who anyone else is.
I’ve actually seen people banned from Lemmy for just supporting transracial people. A recent one happened just 3 days ago actually.
My theory is that a lot of the backlash wasn’t really about me being “offensive” or anything—it was rooted in transphobia. They just wouldn’t come out and say it because Lemmy leans heavily pro-transgender. So instead, they took it out on the transracial identity because that’s still seen as “safe” to attack.
This person got banned just for saying they were proud of their transracial friend. The whole thread was people hating on OP and calling OP sick. Post got removed and the user was banned from the community and their instance.
Then when they went to a diff community to ask about why the hate, mods removed that post too. Lemmy’s definitely not a transracial-friendly space yet: