When she submitted an article to an academic journal of “feminist philosophy,” Hypatia, she thought she was being as progressive as progressive can be. The article “In Defense of Transracialism” was written, she says, “from a place of support for those with non-normative identities,” including not just those who identify with a gender other than the one they were born with (think Caitlyn Jenner), but also those who identify as a race not originally their own (think Rachel Dolezal). She hoped to show that “arguments that support transgenderism support transracialism.”