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Here's How Trans People & Activists Are Reacting to #WrongSkin

Here's How Trans People & Activists Are Reacting to #WrongSkin

Rachel Dolezal, president of the Spokane, Wash. chapter of the NAACP, has come under major fire recently for supposedly hiding her true racial identity. Although she has been passing as African-American for years, Dolezal's parents recently told local Spokane press that she is, in fact, a caucasian person, and has been since birth.

While details of the controversy are still very murky, news of Dolezal's story took to social media like wildfire, with people likening her experience as a "self-identifying African-American woman" to the concept of trans people identifying with a gender different to the one that they were born with. The hashtag, #WrongSkin even started trending on Twitter, and while a lot of people are making jokes about it, here's what trans people and trans activists had to say about the possibility of "being born in the wrong skin," and how it is not at all like the trans experience.


What are your thoughts on Rachel Dolezal and the whole #WrongSkin controversy? Let us know in the comments and on Twitter!

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