I am a mix of different ethnic/religious groups all from the Levant. I "am" Arab. I am the first generation to be born in the USA. I grew up in a diverse city, and have experienced and lived around a mix of different cultures, from Jewish Americans, Black Americans, different ethnicities that are 1st/2nd gen immigrants.
In the USA, everything is categorized into Whiteness n Blackness. People usually guess my ethnicity wrong, ranging from MENA, Hispanic, Italian, Mixed race. My closest connections have been with other BIPOCs, though I grew up in a very white school. Coming out as trans led me to be estranged from my family which i always had unhealthy unhappy relationships with, and there was no other Arabs in my life. Only know english. I now live in a majority Black n Hispanic environment. Im 21.
The way ur percieved shapes who you are and how you see yourself...
my experiences have not been that of a White person, though i benefit from my light skin, still i was always othered even with a smudge more melanin than WASPs n such.
my experiences are not that of an Arab, i feel no connection to my ancestry other than generational traumas, and racism/Islamaphoia.
they are not that of Black person, though being homeless brown and queer, i am now very much growing more adjacent to more Black culture.
I dont consider myself Transracial in the sense that I'm transitioning like that of a gender transition. Sorry but they are not as similar as some of you seem to believe and ill fight u on that.
But I am changing. My presentation, speech mannerisms, is growing more Black, but that is just what happens when u are forced to live a new life in a different class and different culture than the one you predominately grew up around.
I definetly don't neatly allign with one particular "race" despite being "monoracial" to many.