There is no comparison between transgender people and Rachel Dolezal
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/12/comparison-transgender-people-rachel-dolezalThe way in which people compare how Rachel Dolezal identified as black and then was revealed to be of European descent to how transgender women are “really” men pretending to be women reveals the enormous bigotry that many cisgender people have against trans people, more than anything else about race or gender. Some people are willing to make any negative comparison – no matter how far-fetched – to discredit and shame us trans women.
The fundamental difference between Dolezal’s actions and trans people’s is that her decision to identify as black was an active choice, whereas transgender people’s decision to transition is almost always involuntary. Transitioning is the product of a fundamental aspect of our humanity – gender – being foisted upon us over and over again from the time of our birth in a manner inconsistent with our own experience of our genders. Doctors don’t announce our race or color when we are born; they announce our gender. People who are alienated from their presumed gender and define themselves according to another gender have existed since earliest recorded history;
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(I am not the author, the article is written in first person. Good read.)
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for breaking my own rule about never being surprised at how ignorant conservative assholes really are 
on edit - whoa - this was on DU? I'll have to double down on my ass - I guess I should not be surprised at that either
Making light of the bigotry and violence visited upon a murdered trans woman by comparing her life to that of a liar.
The author's title claims there is no comparison.
Then he proceeds to make a comparison.
Maybe just critique this young lady on the merits of her claims, and the effect those claims have had on her career.
To me, her parents have "outed" her as white, which may cause her to lose her job with the NAACP and her job as a teacher of African Studies at a college. So what are her parents trying to accomplish?
