People -- including gay friends of mine -- keep wanting to be OK with Rachel Dolezal's transracial proclamation, going so far as to likening it to Caitlyn Jenner, but I just don't buy it. I was willing to hear her out, but she has yet to be able to convey any tangible reasons why she "always" felt this way, and much of her past hints that this feeling of blackness was not always there, the way most transgender people feel. More than anything, though, I feel this way because she's now saying her parents may not actually be her parents -- as well as many other crazy and untruthful things -- which makes me think she's mentally unstable or a pathological liar, which is NOT what transgender people are. That she goes out of her way to highlight how she's been repeatedly discriminated against for being black -- which the authorities have serious questions about --- while also suing Howard University for being discriminated against for being white also raises concerns, because she's trivializing and making a mockery of ACTUAL attacks on minorities. From what I've seen, she doesn't strike me as mean-spirited, But I do think the transgender comparison is way off base. It seems more like a martyr complex gone awry.
