In case you haven't heard, it was revealed the head of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP, Rachel Dolezal, is actually white, even though she's been posing as black. When I heard about this I laughed and thought that was pretty funny, but didn't think much about it. I guess it actually pissed off some people because I started seeing some posts about it. Supposedly some people said she was trans-racial and this is a backlash to it?

Dolezal is at fault for lying, that I can definitely say. But now that I see this "trans-racial" thing, I feel really uncomfortable because you literally can change a few words about that and it could be a rant against transsexuals. Like, "It's a shame #transsexual wasn't a thing during the Middle Ages. 'Please husband/father, stop beating me, I was born into the wrong sex.' " Or "Trans-sexual, cool. Then I'm trans-class..." Race and sex are not the same thing, so it's not like the involved are interchangeable. But some of the arguments are what I think is facing the transsexual community today. Besides Dolezal lying, there's anger against someone who is privileged and white suddenly becoming black, and blacks are joking that they could become white to get the same privilege. But couldn't I say that as a woman? That a privileged man wants to become a woman, so I may as well change my sex too to become a man? Get the same wages? Not be sexually harassed on the train? Not have all my actions second-guessed because I'm a dumb woman? What does this man know about being a woman? How dare he try to live through the prejudice I experience daily!

Let's say hypothetically Dolezal was open from the start about her racial background. Her having black siblings allowing her to identify more with the black community would not have given her that stewardship at the NAACP because she's white. I'm totally cool with that because it's a group for colored people. Forget Dolezal for a moment, let's say an East Asian feels more comfortable in the Middle-Eastern community. That person would not be fully accepted because he/she is East Asian and would never become the head of any organization propagating Middle Eastern rights. Most of us would think that's fine. But then I have to think: Does that mean a trans-female individual should not be allowed to rise through the ranks of a women's rights organization because you weren't born a woman, regardless of what you identify yourself as? Because if it's okay when it comes to race, I'm not certain what's the difference when it comes to gender, and I don't wanna say that about transsexuals.