Disputing that gender identity is a real concept (which is what I think the majority of people here are doing) is perfectly legitimate, though you are standing against the medical and psychological consensus, presumably for ideological reasons, or more likely because you take your gender identity for granted.
A concept is an abstract idea, DadJoke. We are not disputing that people have ideas about gender identity.
We are disputing that everyone has an internal identity based on one's acceptance or rejection of sex stereotypes and sex role stereotypes associated with one or the other sex.
There is no medical consensus of and no evidence for this happening in all human beings. There is some evidence that people who identify as trans and who suffer from gender dysphoria in early childhood experience a disruption in the development of their personality, which influences their understanding of themselves as a sexed member of a sexually dimorphic species. More often than not, this disruption is caused by trauma, abuse, rigid enforcement of sex stereotypes and sex role stereotypes by parents or caregivers and similar issues.
I recommend reading up on the last century of research into childhood development. There is no mention of this phenomenon, that is, after all, claimed to be innate and universal. If it was innate and universal, they would have observed it, even if they didn't have a word for it.
Most people have no idea what proprioception is, and they take for granted that they know where there limbs are. You only understand it when it's not working. In the same way, non-trans people don't notice their gender identity, because it matches their sexed body. Just because you take it for granted, it doesn't mean it's not real.
Okay, I'll make this clearer since you didn't understand my last response to you. I started thinking about and actively, publicly challenging the sex stereotypes and sex role stereotypes associated with my sex before I was ten. I hated them. Like most women on this board, I did not just think about these stereotypes, I thought about the nature of the world I was living in that sought to force me into this straitjacket of femininity. Once puberty hit, I hated my body. I hated the way it changed and the way post-adolescent males reacted to these changes. And how the straitjacket tightened ever further at this time.
I was forced into this straitjacket because of my sex. It was a means to disadvantage me. To discriminate against me. It was oppressive. The designer of this straitjacket is the patriarchal world we live in. It was made by men. I was forced into it by men and women.
Not thinking about the sex stereotypes and sex role stereotypes associated with one's sex is a luxury only the oppressor class can afford. Those of us who are forced into this straitjacket against our will and to our detriment cannot stop thinking about it.
Now I expect you to ignore what I say about this. Again. And continue to promote your ideology to curtail my rights for the benefit of your sex. That, too, is a privilege afforded only to the oppressor class.
Likewise, until relatively recently, heterosexual people took their sexuality for granted - sexuality as it's used today is a relatively recent concept. Now, we understand that sexual attraction comes in many forms and there a few people now who would deny they have a sexuality.
This is revisionist nonsense. Homosexuality and bisexuality have co-existed alongside heterosexuality for eons. If what you say were true, how would you explain the explicit and specific ways in which the monotheist religions of the world have been sanctioning all aspects of our sexuality as sin, putting even heterosexual people in fear of impure thoughts about their own bodies and the bodies of those they are attracted to?
It doesn't matter if you vote not to have a gender identity, by the definition of the word, you do. It's like voting to not have a spleen.
Please enlighten me. If I must have a gender identity, by the definition of the word, let's discuss that definition. Also, the spleen is an organ. Material reality. An object we can dissect with a knife. We can compare several specimens. Weigh them.
Gender identity is an unobservable, entirely subjective feeling. Tell me how I can verify that it a) exists, b) exists in all of us and c) manifests the same way in all past and present members of our species?