Fancy 36 Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 The popular website Tumblr is the newest flavor picker for today’s forward thinking and progressive LGBTQ culture. The site and its users have been indispensable for spreading awareness of women’s rights, slut shaming, transphobia and other topics generally glossed over by our patriarchal society. Now they have helped to propelled yet another discriminated minority into the world’s spotlight: Transethnicity. National Report was the premier news site to report on these courageous individuals back in December of 2013. It was then that I interviewed one of the first people to be an out-of-the-closet transethnic. Prior to my report, transethnic individuals received little to no support from the LGBTQ community, left to face a lack of understanding and bigotry which dwarfs their transsexual counterparts ten fold. They have faced such slurs as “racistâ€, “weeaboo†and even “wiggerâ€, in their brave effort to simply be themselves.Their persecutors not realizing that the race these persons most closely identify with is not a choice, but a psychological necessity. Someone who is transethnic or transracial does not identify with the race with which they were born, instead resonating more strongly with a different cultural identity. The individual who I interviewed in my last piece is by all outward appearances a Caucasian male. However, if you were to ask him what race he is most comfortable portraying, he would insist that he is a member of the African American culture. I caught up with “Tyrone Jeremiahâ€, the central character of my last piece, to inquire his feelings on this new wave of transethnic acceptance. He relayed to me the following: “First off, I just want to thank you, Jane, cause you listened to me when no one else would, know what I’m sayin’? That’s real talk, girl, you are solid. I had started thinkin’ that no one was ever gonna care or understand my troubles. That I was gonna have to travel this lonely road solo, as a one man gang. But the way you believed in me, and pushed to get my story out there, ain’t nobody fought for me like that.†In the email he goes on to explain that since the first story was released, he was able to come in contact with a significant amount of others who also felt they had been born as the wrong race. “I started gettin’ all kinds of emails from other people saying they identified with my story, and wanted to talk some more. The messages just kept on comin’ in. Men and women who were tired of hiding who and what they are… A person of a different race than what they were born. People who just couldn’t relate to their parents, and the family members they came up with.†Tyrone tells us that he has created a support group for the people he’s met since achieving notoriety as one of the first white to black transethnics. “I put together a mailing list so all of us people could stay in touch and support each other and promote our hip hop projects. It’s been an amazing resource since so we have been misunderstood and alienated for the way we were and were not born. It’s trippy and that makes it all the more important to feel like you’re not alone in this. It makes the negativity we face on a daily basis easier to cope with.†While this journalist is certainly flattered to be considered one of the pioneers in the acknowledgement of transracialism, I realize that racial identity acceptance is so much larger and more important than just one person. There is a long way still towards having transethnicity accepted in the same ways we see with homosexuals and the transgendered. It is my hope that I can merely do my small part in shouldering the cause further down that worthy path. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ETB5 4,512 Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 out-of-the-closet transethnic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fancy 36 Posted February 7, 2015 Author Share Posted February 7, 2015 Just a reminder to cisethnics to check your privilege when you accusing people of cultural appropriation without knowing if they are transethnic/transracial. Sometimes indulging in the culture of their real race can help ease the dyphoria. + Racial identity is important and should be respected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey Jung 19,680 Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 Someone who is transethnic or transracial does not identify with the race with which they were born, instead resonating more strongly with a different cultural identity. ??????????????????? i lost some brain cells reading this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sugarfreesongof2014 259 Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 tumblr as a person Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaity 5,777 Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 all this trans-this trans-that is ridiculous next thing you know people are gonna start thinking they were born and identify with a damn fork Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KinkySanta 1,073 Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 The thing that irked me the most was the cheesy way the dialogue was written. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amber oppa 20,208 Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 I don't believe in tumblr's mumbo jumbo. It just sounds like Koreaboos and such trying to weasel their way out of being embarrassing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Temptastic VII 6,473 Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 all this trans-this trans-that is ridiculous next thing you know people are gonna start thinking they were born and identify with a damn fork Fork-Kin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisiblecc 323 Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 Race is about genetics and your ancestors. If you identify more with a race different than yours, good for you! You still don't stop having the same race. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocumentaLy 6,033 Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 Why would the LGBT community support transethnic people? This has nothing to do with their sexuality or gender. But speaking of transethnic people, simply like another race's culture isn't enough. A better example would be a child being adopted and raised in a family of another race and thinking that they are that race because that's what they were raised around. all this trans-this trans-that is ridiculous next thing you know people are gonna start thinking they were born and identify with a damn fork There already are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hiraishrimp 5,413 Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 tumblr as a person HELP! And I bet she got fired while wearing that Burger King uniform Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocumentaLy 6,033 Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 tumblr as a person She needs to be protesting against her parents for not getting her fucking teeth fixed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joon 8,222 Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 Sure I can understand resonating better with a different culture from how you were raised, but race...? GTFO.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regina 8,123 Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 So it's okay for someone to identify with a different gender, but not a different race. #logic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deviandrepepe 6,559 Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 I have a hard time identifying with a race but that because i'm mixed.People alway groud me with one or the other and it's not exactly offensive but just coffusing. this whole article hint at an issue but take are wrong turn into something that do not even make sense. The real issue is human mania to group everything. Without it, none of this or lgtb or whatever else would not be an issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yume 3,886 Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 Race is about genetics and your ancestors. If you identify more with a race different than yours, good for you! You still don't stop having the same race. I'm not really sure I agree with this but your logic doesn't really make sense. Trans people were also born as a specific sex because of their genetics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seulo 4,828 Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 Someone who is transethnic or transracial does not identify with the race with which they were born, instead resonating more strongly with a different cultural identity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feelbro 467 Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 I was born a white male but I always knew deep down that I was a strong independent black woman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fourever 3,231 Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 tumblr as a person omg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyuliss 84 Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 Maybe it's because I was raised in an extremely multicultural area, but I really don't understand how this works. I'm white, but if I particularly loved Japanese culture for instance, I don't think I would ever go so far as to say that I'm Asian rather than White... I'm just a white person who really loves Japanese culture. Move to Japan, marry a nice Japanese man, work in a nice Japanese workplace, have nice little Japanese kids, whatever, but I'm still a white person with white ancestry. Ethnicity and race is all about ancestry in the end. Identifying more with a culture different to the one you were brought up in is fine, but I don't think we need a fancy word or to make a big deal about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena 21,718 Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 Can't this be considered as the same concept as transgenders? You were born a certain gender but you believe that you fit better by being a person of the opposite sex. Except in this case it's with race/ethnicity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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