Candace Owens is a very right wing, pro-Trump Republican. Needless to say, I don’t agree with a lot of what she says. However, this video she published recently got me thinking:
In it she basically compares the recent story with Hilaria and her false Spanish heritage to that of Rachel Dolezal, the white woman who ‘pretended’ to be black and also to trans people. The former 2 were completely slated and denounced for being ‘delusional’ and for appropriating a culture/race that they are not part of. Trans people, however, are praised and encouraged for claiming to be a gender which, biologically, they are not. Owens says that this is hypocritical, and that if one of these examples is not accepted, then none of them should be. Or, if one of them is acceptable, then they all should be. Why is it wrong to claim that you belong to a certain culture or race, when you do not, but it is ok to claim that you belong to a gender that you do not?
I do see this point of view, but I also feel like she is very flippant about trans people ‘suddenly waking up and deciding to be a woman’, when in reality they have often lived a painful struggle their whole lives to get to that point. I think it is an interesting idea though, and that all 3 examples definitely come from the same line of thinking.
Thoughts? (This is not meant to be a goady or ‘transphobic’ post, merely meant to invite some intelligent discussion)