Now Dolezal is giving interviews to promote her new book, insisting she is a transracial woman in a white body, and stirring new kinds of outrage in the transgender community. In an interview with Salon last week, Dolezal compared herself to Caitlyn Jenner — an Olympic athlete turned transgender icon. “There was a time when we did call transgender, or even gay and bisexual, people crazy,” she said. “That still perpetuates, to a degree, but there’s more acceptance for gender fluidity than there is race fluidity right now.”
“Maybe we will evolve and grow and racial fluidity will become a thing in 20 years?” she said. “I don’t know.”