While it personally makes me a lil uncomfortable, I don't think its immoral or insensitive.
Especially in the context of Be The Girl where every single aspect of a person changes often changes.

The worst context for it is when its the only thing that happens in a story or art. It feels like that fetishes the race itself, rather than the transformation into something different.
The more thats added to it (TG, AR, Reality Change, Personality change, etc), the more "ok" and less uncomfy it becomes, imo.

But, like i said, I don't think its ethically or morally wrong in any context. theres just some contexts where i find it more uncomfortable than others.

I dont think bad end/ nonbad end has any effect on discomfort from my part.

I mean, I’d say just delete the journal and go with what you think is right on it not giving anyone the option to question the morality of it. There is a good chance people would not notice the change

TF is changing into someone or something else.
Though I do find a story about a fanatic Nazi soldier suddenly waking up in a KZ, having switched places with/having been transformed into a jewish Person interesting as a story concept. But that's Just my opinion.
Transformations don't have any boundaries, they never should have.
In the end we are all humans and maybe one day the hate towards eachother will disappear one day...

I think as long as you don’t go huge on stereotypes or try to imply any one race is better than another then it’s should be fine. Some people will always be uncomfortable with any kind of race-related things but I think as long as you aren’t trying to be mean to anyone it would be at least tolerable

It's a very sticky issue to think about, honestly. Like, on one hand, it feels like it ends up fetishizing the whole race as a concept, which feels wrong, obviously. On the other hand, character TF, where an OC is changed into a canon character from some popular media, is a whole thing that lots of folks are a fan of, and often times those changes are interracial.

I feel like it's best to look at it on a case-by-case basis, rather than just as a whole. If the TF results in a stereotypical, insulting caricature of a specific race rather than a character guided to look that way through the bunch of options you've gone for, maybe that's not the best way to take the tf, and it's probably best to reconsider it.

Every concept is inappropriate to someone, do the things you want to do.

People will complain about anything, so

Bruh, honestly inter racial tfs or tgs are fine, and ive had one on my account for years and nobody bats an eye.

I feel weird doing tftgs and I’m a dude. Honestly you might be over thinking it way too much. Speaking from experience, people here are typically chiller than you might think.

My only issue with true colors is how often i land it while playing and i end up picking the same race each time cause if my taste.

If you don’t want to do racial tfs then don’t. If you want to try give them a shot. Don’t let others decide how your art should or shouldn’t be when it comes to what you create.

If people don’t want to use the true colors they have swap options. Don’t censor yourself cause that logic of if it’s bad to ask then its bad doesn’t hold water when you apply to a-lot things. Plus the only reactions you can control are your own so don’t put too much stock in others.

someone is always going to have a problem with anything you do...

just do as you will... keep in mind that turning a "nazi" into a black chick gets no real complaints but the reverse makes people twist their panties.

some people hope to be offended so they can power play against you, ignore them and move on.

In the current world where racial violence and prejudice runs rampant? Yes. It's extremely problamatic and not really okay since there's so much baggage associated with this stuff. Leaning into any stereotypes associated with it is pretty awful since at the end of the day, those stereotypes don't exsist on a fundamental level.

That said, I've seen some tfs where levels of melotonin (skin darkness) or various facial features or hair do change which don't feel racial at all. When avoiding stereotypes or making it into a fetish and instead making it empowering it can be really refreshing. It helps nurture the idea that all of this racial bias stuff is just baggage we can one one day let go of and explore the multitudes of human nature as we wish.

Transformation is about longing. Longing to experience something new, or longing to shed the things we dislike about ourselves. Embrace that notion whilst casting aside the idea of racial tfs and instead view it as someone simply experiencing a new body as an individual rather than transitioning from one race to another and I think you'll be okay <3

Feels like you're riding a line, but as long as you're not leaning hard on stereotypes or out and out racism, you could be okay.

I'm reminded of the one you did with a Black serviceman getting transformed into a Japanese woman, and it is harmless, but I couldn't not think of the implications, at least, story-wise.

The fact that you’re asking the questions points to a sensitivity that these issues require. Like many here, I think it’s the motivation behind the request: if you’re doing a tf into a specific person, there might still be fetishizing of race / ethnicity that makes the request corrupt. At the worst, it is a true fetish of race or culture. Understanding this is a place for fantasy, our fantasies should still be tamed and restricted to moral requests.

I think it's going to depend on the particular change and how it's portrayed.

If it's some type of fetish thing or punishment, or plays into stereotypes and caricatures, I think that's problematic.

If it's something like a twinning TF or turning into a character from media of some sort, then I wouldn't think much of it because the focus is (likely) on becoming a specific other person rather than on the race.

'Be The Girl' feels like somewhere in-between that could go either way? If it's part of a total reinvention where nothing is off the table, then I'm personally okay with that but see how people could be upset. If rolling/choosing a particular race is equated to a bad end, I wouldn't be okay with that.

stop giving a fuck about what others think... people regardless of how much you adjust and be considerate, they still will find a reason to complain even if you follow all the parameters.

I personally don't trust myself to be able to accurately portray the experience of being another race. I haven't lived that life, and I can only see it from outside. I worry I would do something insensitive or insulting, no matter what my intentions are.

As for seeing it, I'm kind of uncomfortable with it, because when I see it, it almost always hyperfocuses on stereotypes (positive or negative, and positively or negatively focuses on them). It feels less like an attempt to genuinely explore that experience and more like (as others have said) fetishizing the race itself. Playing up horrible things like discrimination as "pretty hot, actually" or even worse, "totally justified because they really ARE like that".

As long as the instance is not like that, I'm less uncomfortable. I'm just not ready to trust myself to be able to pull it off well, which is sad, because I'd like to have more variety in my side characters. But since I'm not really good with humans anyway, I kinda try to just not bring stuff up and let people fill in what they will. I don't really think in terms of physical bodies, so most of the humans in my books are just... not even described at all, aside from the most bare things. (I should probably be a lot better about that.) ~_~

I think the key to writing a good racial TF involves doing your research, avoid stereotypes, and reduce the fetishization when possible.

In the context of Be The Girl I don't see any problems as the change doesn't enforce certain stereotypes or behaviors as a result of the change.

People have been doing body switching and body changes for decades along all manner of tropes. Possession, body leaping (Quantum Leap), curses (Freaky Friday, Big), virtual reality, mind swaps and brain transplants, reality shifting, etc. Changing gender or race is small potatoes if you were to look at it on a genetic level. However, we are living in an age were people can be overly sensitive and there are even those that purposely go out to find a problem with something. It is your art, stories and creativity and you should feel you can do whatever you want regardless of your race or gender. If you are afraid of offending just put a disclaimer. If they don't like that kind of stuff they shouldn't be reading or looking at it in the first place. Plenty of famous artists in history that were shunned, hated or ridiculed and it is fortunate that they didn't let those people get to them.