If a man can self-identify as a woman, a white person can self-identify as another race.
And also, a black person can self-identify as white.
I would have loved this growing up. I was very dark skinned (mixed race) in a colonial society where whites were a privileged minority and racism was accepted and nobody blinked an eye, everyone knew that white people were better in every way.
I longed to be white. I hated my skin, my hair, my lips. Deep inside I knew I was just as much worth as a white person but my body denied me the verification that I WAS equal. I KNEW it, though. I was in fact a white person living in a black body.
It wasn't until I was 16 and began to understand racism, and racism began to be actively opposed and fought against in the UK and the US, that I realised the error of my thinking and not only accepted my colour but was outraged by the self-hate I'd been socialised into.
How is this any different from girls hating their bodies because they know they are as good as boys, and thus want to change?
In fact it was my thinking that should have been changed as a child, not my body. It was the socialisation that was at fault, not my physical attributes of dark skin, frizzy hair, thicker lips.
Add to my confusion that I wanted to be a boy from the years 19-13!
And then getting very fat when I was 17, due to deep insecurity!
Body denial and hatred was very strong within me, but my body was in fact fine. The change that had to come was internal, and it came late but it did come.