It's stupid af

Transracial is a term specific to those who were adopted into families of different race, for example. All other interpretations essentially amount to whites playing dress up with other cultures and then crying because they were called out for being racist while conveniently ignoring the still-existing imperialist white supremacy that occurs on a global scale.

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Spillin the tea.

"omg you can't be serious lolol are you trolling? are you stupid hahaha xD"

Where's the answer?

Gender identity is a real thing, race identity isn't.

There are multiple answers in this thread. Just read them.

What about bi-racial/mixed people that end up "picking a side" on what race they identify though?

Biracial white/black people often consider themselves black because that's how society views them.

It has nothing to do with "identifying" as a race, lol.

No, not at all, especially considering what might be "black"/"white"/"asian" etc to one society may not be to another

Example:

During the time I spent in Poland as a child, all of my classmates, teachers and co. considered me as black or native but when I moved back to UK people never really considered me as a black/native person and were shocked when they saw some of my family pictures [for some school work] that I really had black/native relatives [my entire mum's family] and they assumed that I was trolling to them when I said anything about my race.

so Eminem is racist for growing up in a black Detroit neighborhood

by the way using buzz words like "essentially" and "imperialist supremacy" do not make your arguments any stronger. strong arguments do.

I never said it was the same in every society

Either way, the race you consider yourself is based on what people have told you, whether it's your family or people around you. Your race is based on your physical appearance or the physical appearance of you parents/grandparents.

People don't identify as a certain race, just like they don't identify as having a certain eye color or whatever.

Gender identity is something millions of people struggle with. I don't see why people want to defend being transracial so much, you aren't helping anyone.

This is actually a very interesting question.

I would say, whereas gender is indeed a social and cultural construct based on the observations of it in other societies and cultures (cultures with a third gender, and even animals who sometimes switch gender roles), there is no changing your racial background, and to my understanding race doesn't play a role in your identity if not for external factors: privilege, racism... etc.

I feel like I'm explaining myself terribly, but those are my thoughts.