White Guy Self-Identifies as Filipino Woman

[Aegon]

It is kind of contradictory. On one hand we say that femininity/masculinity don't exist and that males/females are the same and interchangeable. On the other hand we recognize the extreme psychological plight a person is put in when they feel feminine but are actually male.

So, which is it?

They cant both be true. Personally I'll take the latter one and acknowledge the differences between men and women.

As for race, I have no idea.

I think this is a hole in postmodern feminist thought. These new gender and sexual identities are built around culturally manufactured ideas of gender that they themselves reject.

Gender and race are no doubt social constructs. Different cultures throughout history see these concepts very differently. They rarely remain constant for more than a century at a time. An example when it comes to race: what is white, according to Americans? Most people today would say that Irish and Polish were white. Less than 100 years ago people thought of them as "inbetweens," and, even though they literally looked white, they weren't truly white. The Courts even claimed that certain immigrants, including them, were not "legally white." So you see that race and our idea of it changes over time.

Does that give a white guy the excuse to call himself Filipino? I say no, mostly because each ethnic group deals with issues that are almost exclusive to them, and you are undermining these by pretending you are one of them.