The term ‘transracial’ has been discussed to death over the past year or so, though not in its traditional context.
Largely inspired by the 2017 re-emergence of one pseudo-racebending, National Geographic-inspired opportunist who shall not be named, conversations about the fact that being transracial “isn’t a thing” have grown more frequent in recent months, much to the frustration of those to which the term originally applied - people adopted into families of a different race.
Transracial adoption began to take off in Britain in the postwar era, when mass migration of citizens from the commonwealth, affected dramatic change in the racial-makeup of Britain. No different from other facets of society that chastised people of colour at the time, the 1950s-60s British social care system was similarly ill-equipped when it came to recognising the needs of children of colour.