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It's worth mentioning that "I endentify as..." is effectively a neologism that germinated around 2010-2014. I don't think I ever heard that phrase before then. Before you'd just say you 'are' something, if you even mentioned it at all. It's like the addition of 'identify as' has been inorganically shoehorned in to add some sort of perceived gravitas to how you describe yourself. After all, what's the use in being vegan/gay/a cyclist/trans/etc if you can't centre it as the be-all and end-all of your person so you can browbeat people with it?So when they latch on to something, being trans, being vegan, being ..., that is in a sense to fill a hole in their soul and then that becomes their whole identity. It is how they "become human" and how they acquire a personality.
And you're right when you say that it's a proxy for an interesting and likable personality which these people otherwise lack entirely. This is why troons, vegans and so on are all reprehensible insufferable cunts, to a man. It's not a coincidence.
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