Prof: Dolezal deserves support

Opinion contributor David S. D’Amato/The Hill comments:

Philosophy professor Rebecca Tuvel touched off a firestorm of controversy this week with her paper “ In Defense of Transracialism ,” published in the feminist journal Hypatia. In it, Professor Tuvel argues that we ought to support those who identify with a racial group other than the one into which they were born just as we support transgender people. Outrage ensued, and Hypatia has, in less than a day’s time, apologized for publishing the article, enumerating several spurious problems with it. More here.