"I was born Black and male but now I identify as a PAWG"

[Kuma the Bear]

Like many young women, Dr Ronnie Gladden grew up wanting to be like Snow White, fantasised about a Pride & Prejudice lifestyle and wanted to emulate Elle Fanning's fashion.

Ronnie dreamed of lying out in the sun getting a tan and of having blonde hair that grew lighter in the summer.

This wasn't a typical set of ambitions, however, because Ronnie was a black boy growing up in Cincinnati’s west side.

Now, middle aged, Ronnie is a tenured professor of English at Cincinnati State Technical and Community College, a public speaker, and actor, and uses this platform to promote what he calls a 'transgracial' identity.

Despite being born black and male, Ronnie - who uses the pronoun they - now identifies as a white woman, regardless of outward appearances, saying there is a 'repressed White female identity' inside them begging to be released.

Ronnie is part of a little-known community of people who are 'transgracial' - meaning they are both transgender and identify as transracial.

People who are transracial believe that race is a social construct and therefore a 'choice', but the idea of 'changing' race is highly controversial.

'I know race is not real,' Ronnie writes in their book. 'It's only so because society says it is.'

Ronnie undertook surgery, with a first nose job at 19, combined with 'some work on the lips'.

They also wear foundation in a lighter shade than their skin but they acknowledge that their outward appearance does not relay to the world their inner feeling of being a white woman.

Describing the feeling further during a TedX talk, Ronnie explained: 'I present as black and male, yet internally, I possess a white girl within.'

They continued: 'Back then, I knew [...] that I was drawn to the white female aesthetic. I magnetically connected with the hair texture, the skin complexion, the bone structure, the social cues and the mathematics of that all.'

Ronnie, who has been in therapy for almost two decades, said that transitioning from the inside out is something they've spent much time thinking about.

This is something they explained in detail in their book White Girl Within: Letters of Self-Discovery Between a Transgender and Transracial Black Man and His Inner Female.

I was born a black and male, but now I identify as a white woman

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

 

[The Guru]

lookin ass

 

[KingDanz]

 

[TheNig]

 

[Buddy]

Ronnie dreamed of lying out in the sun getting a tan

lookin ass

That's him all grown up

 

[Detroit Wave]

Told yall that mentally ill tranny bs was eventually coming to this

Mfs gon be identifying as foxbody mustangs by 2032

 

[CrushedGroove]

I tried to identify as a $100 dollar bill before. I kept laying across the counter at the Louis store.

After the tenth time, I was promptly removed. I don't know if it was because $1000 wasn't enough for the messenger bag or they were discriminating.

 

[Hater Eraser]

 

[JackRoss]

ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Yinny]

Right on sister man

 

[Nabs]

"I'm a 35 year-old white woman"

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

I tried to identify as a $100 dollar bill before. I kept laying across the counter at the Louis store.

After the tenth time, I was promptly removed. I don't know if it was because $1000 wasn't enough for the messenger bag or they were discriminating.

You shouldn't of pulled that's why they didn't accept you. Next time you need to try this look.

 

[pickles]

Pawg Alert.

 

[Hater Eraser]

ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

" Oh, your majesty
Hmm? ..

Can I kiss your hand?
Mmm-hmm ..

Enough ...

Come your highness, they await you .. "