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Pigmentation doesn't determine your race though
Race is made up nonsense by racists to justify discrimination.
If pigmentation isn’t race, what is race?
I mean. You said it yourself: it's a set of made up factors.
In regions of Africa it was nose size and height. There's also hair textures, and ... You know, really any heritable physical feature has probably been raced up at some point.
Even outside of a discrimination context, it's just arbitrary physical characteristics that lump people from roughly similar areas and heritages together.
Changing your coarse physical characteristics doesn't change your race because it doesn't change your heritage, it's not heritable, and race is extremely mixed up with culture.
It may be a synthetic division (if you went in blind and grouped people by DNA you'd be extremely unlikely to group them based on any particular racial basis), but it's still physically based in a way that gender isn't.
Pigmentation isn't race, if it were then someone with Albinism would be a different race to their same-race-parents.