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I posed this question:

I’m wondering if there’s even a law governing which category you must check. Is anyone ever asked to provide evidence?

Then I found this case...

These firefighters got into trouble with the law for falsely identifying their "race." They were asked to show evidence:

Malone v. Haley

“Individuals are placed into categories according to the perceptions of their racial or ethnic identity held by a designated decision-making third party. An individual's membership in a particular group might thus be determined according either to:

(a) Member reference-whether or not members of that group (however defined) consider her to be a fellow member, or
(b) Nonmember reference-whether or not nonmembers of that group consider her to be a member of that group."

I always tick the "Other" box when filling out a form since, short of a genetic test, I really have no way of knowing or proving who my ancestors slept with or were raped by. But according to this legal opinion, apparently I now have to check with others in the "Other" category to see if they consider me part of their group.

I wonder if liberals ever consider how silly all of their contortions look to rational people.

Thanks for the hyperlink!

[...] the employer-submitted EEO information is grounded in the subjective assessments of individual personnel administrators - who are not, one might suspect, entirely disinterested in the outcome - about whether an employee, for example, "looks Black" or "seems Hispanic." This information is judged against self-reported MSA data. This mechanism, which juxtaposes the apples of self-reported race and ethnicity with the oranges of stereotyped group ascription, is the foundation of federal EEO enforcement. [...]

Heady stuff!

And funny how, in the same paper, "gender" is considered to be much easier to categorize.

Regards,