Subject: Re: Race fluidity
Worked for Elizabeth Warren. Granted, she *did* write a cookbook detailing the culinary feats of her ancestors. Who could forget the natives' invention of Tomato Mayonnaise Dressing? Just amazing.

It didn't work for Elizabeth Warren. No one suggested that a pretextual claim of ancestry which the person knew to have no support is enough to establish identity. All parties involved recognized that there had to be something more - some actual facts that would give rise to a claim of identity. People vigorously disagreed about whether those facts existed, but no one disagreed with the basic proposition that if you have absolutely no basis at all for asserting a particular identity then you can't claim that identity.

Why not? If your very chromosomes don't matter, why should small details like your pigmentation?

Trans identity isn't linked to chromosomes. That's the point. Trans identity is based on the principle that gender identity is a construct that is not inextricably tied to chromosomes, which is how gender dsyphoria can exist.