(06-16-2015, 08:48 AM)Splash Wrote: Here is a commentary on this topic from black trans woman Kat Blaque :
Quote:The difference is that, gender is not a biological trait passed from parent to child, whereas race is.
Apparently, Kat is using the term gender to denote one's psychological/sexual identity, rather than one's biology. Gender used to pertain to biology, but no longer. Until recent decades, gender was indisputable. Now, it is socially acceptable to change one's gender, based on what one identifies with psychologically. But biologically, gender absolutely is passed on, just as race is.
One might be born, say, black or Asian, while being biologically Caucasian, because of bleedthrough from past lives, just as one might identify as female while being biologically male, for the same reason.
Both race and gender are biologically passed on. In both cases, the person might identify with a different race or gender.
It seems to me that the only difference is that we now have the technology to change gender, but don't yet have the technology to change race.