Race faker Rachel Dolezal has compared herself to Caitlyn Jenner and claims that race is not 'coded in your DNA' and should be viewed like gender or religion.

The 37-year-old, from Spokane, Washington, had claimed to be black but was accused of lying about her racial identity earlier this year, then admitted she ‘was biologically born white to white parents’.

Now she has likened her situation to that of the US reality television star Caityln Jenner who announced she was transitioning from male to female in April.

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Race faker Rachel Dolezal (left) has compared herself to Caitlyn Jenner (right) and claims that race is not 'coded in your DNA' and should be viewed like gender or religion

Rachel Dolezal, who was posing as a black woman but was outed as a white woman earlier this year, has said that since she was outed, a third of her friends have stopped speaking to her

Dolezal told the Guardian that comparisons could be drawn with the 66-year-old former Olympian - arguing that people should not be defined by who or what they were at birth.

Jenner has been held up as a poster girl for trans women and earlier this month she was named on the shortlist for TIME Person of the Year.

Dolezal said: 'Caitlyn Jenner has not been seen as a woman, and treated as a woman by other people, for her entire life. So what does that mean? What if somebody transitions as a teenager and their entire adult life we know them as a woman.

'I hope we can reach some kind of term for the plurality of people and allow everybody to be exactly who they are on the spectrum of all these things. Religion, gender, race.'

Dolezal also suggested people were 'operating on an autopilot that race is coded in your DNA'.

In the past six months Dolezal, pictured here as a teen before her 'transition' from white to black, has lost her job and faced trauma by being in the public eye

Since being outed as white by her own parents (pictured), Dolezal - the former President of an NAACP chapter - has revealed that she has lost a third of her friends and that she is still unemployed.

'What I believe about race is that race is not real. It’s not a biological reality. It’s a hierarchical system that was created to leverage power and privilege between different groups of people.'

Since being outed as white by her own parents, Dolezal - the former President of an NAACP chapter - has revealed that she has lost a third of her friends and that she is still unemployed.

The expecting mother also announced last week that she will be naming her new son after the poet Langston Hughes.

She told the media site that since it was revealed that she was not an African American woman and had white parents, about a third of her friends have stopped speaking to her and being turned down by publishers when she proposed writing a memoir.

Dolezal was voted out of her volunteer Police Ombudsman Commission position in Spokane and Eastern Washington University declined to renew her quarterly adjunct professor contract.

Dolezal (pictured when she was leader of an NAACP chapter) said in a revealing interview that she has 'struggled with depression' since being outed as a white woman

She claims the only job offer she has received since she was outed was a six-figure Vivid Entertainment porn offer, which she turned down. She has resorted to doing weaves and braiding part time to make ends meet after losing her job.

But when she discovered she was pregnant - with the child of a man she declines to discuss - she chose to keep the baby.

She has one other biological child, Franklin, and took in her adopted brother Izaiah, 21, and started raising him as her son.

Dolezal rarely discusses her childhood, but it has been reported that she was born into a family rooted in extreme Christianity.



