Unwarranted speculation, lol. Other speculations I've made in the same realm: the sun is hot, a bullet fired from a gun would hurt to be shot with, people who are nuclear physicists are at worst reasonably intelligent, and Comet isn't delicious.
you have no evidence from which to conclude that dolezal is not sincere in her preference to identify as black. it merely does not suit you to do so.
I can't take your viewpoint on this seriously because you refuse to acknowledge the role that Dolezeal suing Howard University for discrimination against her as a white woman plays in your silly Jenner parallel.
i didn't address it because it is irrelevant. you don't state here in what way you think that it is relevant, so i'm forced to guess at your thought process. i'll credit you with at least not making the same ridiculous objection that mrs. gooch and michigancat raised (zomg, she knew she was white!). in the absence of your own arguments, i'll assume you are simply raising the point that previous to claiming an identity as black, she publicly acknowledged her identity as white and acted in that capacity and within that identity for most of her life. this too is irrelevant in distinguishing her situation from jenner's. jenner also acknowledged his identity as male and acted as such in many stereotypically male endeavors throughout his life. their behaviors in not consistently rejecting the identities society bestowed upon them does not, in and of itself, make their later expressions of preference for other identities hypocritical or illegitimate. the objection to dolezal having lived as white is about as ridiculous as claiming jenner was fraudulent in competing in athletic events as a male when he felt himself to be female.
Also I'm confused as to why you keep melding the conversation of courage and whether Caitlin Jenner should be receiving an award.
it was an award for courage or bravery or something like that.
Of course it's courageous to tell the world you're transgendered, is this even a doubt? Did I transform into a world where transgendered people are universally accepted?
if you judge by the reactions, both on this messageboard, and what i've encountered of reactions off the board, manifesting yourself as transgender is far more accepted than claiming a race which conflicts with your genetic origin. perhaps you should reread both threads to note the difference. if there is no doubt of the courage it takes to claim a transgender identity, how can you argue that it is not more courageous to claim an even less accepted identity?
And knock it off with this race is more mutable than gender bs. No one itt has even attempted to make that argument as a matter of fact with regards to this situation I haven't heard anyone attempt to approach this nationally.
you are right, no one here has had the courage or intellectual honesty to make that argument. instead the evidence that posters here consider it to be true is manifested in how they've lauded jenner's claim of an identity that conflicts with his biological sex and attacked dolezal for claiming an identity that conflicts with her biological race. actions speak more truthfully than arguments.
This story is about a person who perpetuated a fraud not someone who struggled for a lifetime to figure out whether or not they want to reveal their true self to the world.
fraud vs "true self". no, clearly you don't find gender to be more mutable than race. gmafb.
