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brandx:

You did an ace job! Thanks!

The one thing I’d clarify further is racist bio spawn have hijacked it so much by now that they’ve got whites AND POC fooled into assuming that “transracial,” even in the context of adoption, means identifying with a different race than the one you actually are.

’Transracial’ does not nor has EVER meant that transracial adoptees are “white on the inside.”

It ONLY means we were adopted by families of a different race than our own. It’s a simple generic term that refers to circumstances, not personal identification. It predates Tumblr. FFS, it predates the entire Internet by like half a century.

(Transethnic is a bit more fuzzy as it often intersects with culture & nationality, and any adoptee who was raised in a Swedish/French/Dutch family & community is completely right to identify as such IF THEY CHOOSE,  but that’s another post…)

And while plenty of transracial adoptees DO feel racially out of place more than most and disconnected from our birth communities, none of these entirely valid complexities resemble the farcical stupidity and grossness of those white appropriative “transracial” assholes.

But it’s not suprising more and more ppl are fooled, given the rising trend of clueless bio spawn making a self-aggrandizing show with onanist, identical posts of ‘TRANSRACIAL DOESN’T EXIST!!!’, completely discounting the existence of adoptees & foster kids of color, thus actually supporting the racist shitheads who’ve erased us in the first place. (Side-eying you, friendzoned, rtrixie, amestrianprincess, dangitbobby, mikeyharmon, and every other random ass just seen from most recent #transracial search)