This is a topic that's already been decided scientifically, and any other discussion is asinine.
The transgender concept has been proven; genitals and brain structure aren't formed at the same time, female brains and male brains are pretty different structurally and with how they develop, etc. There's nothing to debate with regard to it existing. There is debate as to the degree that people who identify as transgender have this type of condition, meaning that there are certainly people who do not have "mismatched" (for lack of a better word) brain makeup and genitals who still decide to identify as transgender anyway.
Race has been proven as a matter of genetics. Transracial doesn't exist unless you decide to completely change your genetics to something completely different, which is not currently possible. Again, you can have people who decide to identify as transracial anyway, but there's never a case (unlike transgender) where it actually does exist.
On some level, we're going to have to decide if we want to allow people to identify as whatever gender or race they want. The issue right now is that it's difficult to prove that someone is not transgender because there are cases where it does happen. We don't have that issue for transracial.
tl;dr: Transgender provably exists, and transracial provably doesn't.
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