Can I be Trans-Race or Trans-Class?

[InquiringMind]

So if I'm allowed to choose my gender identity to be whatever I want it to be, and thus I can be trans-gender, can I also be trans-race?  I'm clearly white, but could I decide that I am actually trans-racially Asian?  Or black?  If gender is an arbitrary social construct with no relation to biological realities like chromosomes or body parts, then is race also an arbitrary social construct that has no relations to chromosomes or skin color?  

And can I be trans-class?  Can I be a poor person who identifies as a wealthy person and thus is entitles to the privileges of the wealthy?  Can I sit in first class on an airplane on the grounds that I am trans-class and thus can sit with the upper class passengers?


The reality for me is that I am a middle class white male.  Could I actually identify as a wealthy black woman?  I would be transgender, transrace, and transclass.  I would go to fancy restaurants and hand them Monopoly money and tell them that I am actually wealthy.  Since money is a social construct anyway, they would have no grounds for refusing my Monopoly money as long as I asserted that I was a transclass wealthy person.  

Here's another question.  If you're not a white male, but you want what you believe is white male privilege, couldn't you just re-identify yourself as a white male when it suited your purposes?  Could identify as a man in salary negotiations so you'd get paid more money, but identify as a woman for purposes of the military draft so you wouldn't have to sign up?  If race, gender, and class are fluid and constantly changing, then couldn't I change my race, gender, and class identities whenever it would give me some kind of advantage in a situation?

[Tiberius]

You think transgender people "choose" their gender. That's your first problem.

[brewer]

You can be transidiot if you want. Based on this thread I'm pretty sure you would qualify in all the categories you described.

[Amarok]

you could be a trans douche bag oh wait you already are

[chimp3]

Yes! Race is a social construct. So , biologically we can say we are all African in ancestry. Evidence supports this.

Class wise , if your poor you can claim you are rich. Con artists do it all the time. People give them enough money they actually become rich. Amazing! People love to give money to rich people not poor.

[Ravenshire]

If you're something other than human, I guess you could decide to be trans-racial.

[Fireball]

Yes! Race is a social construct. So , biologically we can say we are all African in ancestry. Evidence supports this.

Class wise , if your poor you can claim you are rich. Con artists do it all the time. People give them enough money they actually become rich. Amazing! People love to give money to rich people not poor.

Yes, we are all out of Africa, it just depends on when one chooses the date.

Bolding mine. I have noted in my lifetime that people with money actually have other people who want to give them money and possessions. I first noticed this phenomenon when I worked delivering auto parts, in '77. The guy who owned the store got gifts all the time from other business owners, and those gifts were reciprocated. I'm not complaining; it is just a phenomenon that I noticed. No one else at any of the other businesses, even the managers, were presented with gifts, only the owners. I can see greasing the wheels, but it just seemed strange that only the owners were in the circle of giving.

It's kind of the same phenomenon I've seen play out at traffic crashes, where the owner of a Rolls Royce was dead drunk, but not taken into custody, even though he admitted that he'd "Probably had too much to drink", and where there were fatalities. That from about 30 YA; the laws have gotten a little tighter. A guy in a runaway rice burner gets taken to the pokey as a matter of course after an accident.

[Neo-Scholastic]

You think transgender people "choose" their gender. That's your first problem.

And then there are the people who claim to be gender fluid.

[chimp3]

Yes! Race is a social construct. So , biologically we can say we are all African in ancestry. Evidence supports this.

Class wise , if your poor you can claim you are rich. Con artists do it all the time. People give them enough money they actually become rich. Amazing! People love to give money to rich people not poor.

Yes, we are all out of Africa, it just depends on when one chooses the date.

Bolding mine. I have noted in my lifetime that people with money actually have other people who want to give them money and possessions. I first noticed this phenomenon when I worked delivering auto parts, in '77. The guy who owned the store got gifts all the time from other business owners, and those gifts were reciprocated. I'm not complaining; it is just a phenomenon that I noticed. No one else at any of the other businesses, even the managers, were presented with gifts, only the owners. I can see greasing the wheels, but it just seemed strange that only the owners were in the circle of giving.

It's kind of the same phenomenon I've seen play out at traffic crashes, where the owner of a Rolls Royce was dead drunk, but not taken into custody, even though he admitted that he'd "Probably had too much to drink", and where there were fatalities. That from about 30 YA; the laws have gotten a little tighter. A guy in a runaway rice burner gets taken to the pokey as a matter of course after an accident.

Claiming genetic affiliation with African ancestry does not diminish ones familial and cultural history. Recent events are real and verifiable.

[Fireball]

Yes, we are all out of Africa, it just depends on when one chooses the date.

Bolding mine. I have noted in my lifetime that people with money actually have other people who want to give them money and possessions. I first noticed this phenomenon when I worked delivering auto parts, in '77. The guy who owned the store got gifts all the time from other business owners, and those gifts were reciprocated. I'm not complaining; it is just a phenomenon that I noticed. No one else at any of the other businesses, even the managers, were presented with gifts, only the owners. I can see greasing the wheels, but it just seemed strange that only the owners were in the circle of giving.

It's kind of the same phenomenon I've seen play out at traffic crashes, where the owner of a Rolls Royce was dead drunk, but not taken into custody, even though he admitted that he'd "Probably had too much to drink", and where there were fatalities. That from about 30 YA; the laws have gotten a little tighter. A guy in a runaway rice burner gets taken to the pokey as a matter of course after an accident.

Claiming genetic affiliation with African ancestry does not diminish ones familial and cultural history. Recent events are real and verifiable.

True enough. I am only referring to ancestry. Culturally, we are so diverse as to defy belief, sometimes.