Ronnie belongs to a small but well-known group of persons who identify as “transgracial”—that is, both transgender and transracial.
Although the concept of “changing” one’s race is quite contentious, transracial people think that race is a social construct and hence a “choice.”
The former NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal is a well-known example of a transracial person. In 2015, she revealed that she was a white lady with a mostly European background.
She said that the “idea of race is a lie,” which sparked controversy on social media and throughout the globe. When she said that ethnicity.
Is not biological in an interview with BBC’s Newsnight that year, she linked being “transracial” to being transgender, which many X (formerly Twitter) users to accuse her of using “white privilege” to support her claims.
