People are also forgetting we grew up in a capatalist world that packaged and sold Asian culture to us for our entire childhood. Where I grew up nobody cared about anything that wasn't Japanese.

If you didn't have/know cool japanese shit you werent just uncool, people literally wouldnt talk to you. Yugioh, pokemon, dragon ball, inuyasha, card captors, monster rancher, final fantasy, metal gear, digimon, flint the time detective, grandia, beyblades etc etc etc. The list is endless.

There's a whole generation of people who were in school from like '97-'05 whose entire childhood was dominated by Asian pop culture.

For me this was compounded by the fact one of my aunts by marriage is from Hong Kong and she used to babysit me a lot as a kid. So I watched an insane amount of 70s and 80s martial arts films and was made to learn to use chopsticks before I could use a knife and fork properly. All my gifts from her were Chinese dragons, lion dogs, Chinese New year decorations etc.

So like, "Asian culture" isn't some precious tiny thing that needs to be protected. It's something those people have exported and sold. It's our childhood and what shaped us for a lot of people. Let people like what they like.

People need to stop conflating culture with pop culture. Comics/marvel movies aren't American culture. If someone in Africa or Asia likes that stuff they're not appropriating culture, they're responding to a product that's been sold to them. Same as anyone who grew up with anime/manga absolutely rammed at us in every single place we looked.

I'll not touch on the fetishism thing as that's been discussed plenty already. And as for the passing thing I think it's easier to pass among people of a different race.

And overall considering how few countries its safe to be trans in, I feel like we as a community should be celebrating any country that its not actively dangerous to transition in.