Oh, for the luvva Pete. I guess it was bound to happen; now some goober is claiming to be trans-racial. Excerpt:
Riding in a flamboyant purple vehicle, Ja Du shows up to a coffee shop to open up about his new identity.
Ja Du, born a white male named Adam, now considers himself a Filipino. Turns out the purple ride he drives around in is called a Tuk Tuk, an Asian-derived vehicle used for public transit in the Philippines he says.
Ja Du is part of a small, but growing community of people who considers themselves transracial. It refers to someone born one race, but identifies with another.
Sound weird? Not to them. Ja Du says he grew up enjoying Filipino food, events and the overall culture.
“Whenever I’m around the music, around the food, I feel like I’m in my own skin,” he said.
“I’d watch the history channel sometimes for hours you know whenever it came to that and you know nothing else intrigued me more but things about Filipino culture.”
If you’re thinking this sounds familiar, you might remember the story of Rachel Dolezal. Dolezal was born white, but identified as black and portrayed herself as such. She was even the president of the Spokane, Washington, chapter of the NAACP.
After she appeared on an episode of Dr. Phil, the term transracial started to become more widely known. Now, we are finding out this community of people who identify as another race is growing. If you look on Facebook, where we found Ja Du, groups dubbed transracial are popping up with dozens of members.
Look, my stance on such things is well known; I really don’t give an ounce of rat’s pee what people do, as long as they leave me alone. And whatever all of you various True Believers out there may think of trans-sexual people, at least there is some science behind that – there is such a thing as gender-body dysmorphia that has been known to psychiatry for a long damn time.
But this guy, in all seriousness, I can only believe is looking for his fifteen minutes and nothing more. Unlike sex, race in humans is purely a social and cultural construct; humans have amazingly low genetic diversity as large mammals go.
This kook is just looking to get his name in the news. Sad part is, he has succeeded. And yes, I know I’m giving him more exposure now, but what the hell.
