I just had to post this as it's really pssed me off! I was just about to sign up for the music streaming service Deezer when it asked me for my 'identity' - options being 'male', 'female' and 'non-binary'. Not sex, not even gender, but 'identity'. First of all, what does a 'female identity' involve? Doing the washing-up, baking cakes, painting my nails and other regressive sexist stereotypes? Why would Deezer need to know if I do any of these things? The closest I feel to having any kind of gender identity is being 'non-binary', but I don't want to choose that option because then I'm playing along with gender identity ideology that I don't believe in, because it relies on sexist stereotypes to define everyone and puts these above reality - ie. sexed bodies, and the fact that most people don't identify with some sort of internal womanly or manly essence anyway. I find it dehumanising to have to define myself in these terms - that's the ironic thing, for me gender - as in social behaviours - really is fluid, but such woke companies won't allow this, you have to put yourself in the 'feminine' or 'masuline' or 'I'm soooo much more complicated and special than everyone else' box. I'm not any of those things, I'm a human being, and as such I experience a whole range of human emotions relating to my 'identity', gender or otherwise. They may as well ask me if I'm a happy or sad person - well, it depends! I feel really angry about this, because I just want to play some fcking music, and instead I'm being asked to play along with an ideology I think is bullshit. I didn't choose to be a fcking female and be subjected to all the sexist crap I've been barraged with from birth, it's not an identity, it's a physical state, and the reason why I've been spoken down to, sexually assaulted, not promoted at work etc - I didn't identify into those things, and if I could have I would have identified out. That's the great irony about all this, they don't actually care about women's identities, so why do they even ask? We keep telling them we don't feel like we have a womanly inner essence of femininity, but we're told we do and that we have to put ourselves in that box or renounce being a woman and call ourselves non-binary. I don't want to renounce being a woman, I shouldn't have to in order to live the life I want to live free from sexist stereotyping, nor do I want to align myself with some sort of 'feminine identity', because that's not how I feel about myself. The fact that people aren't fcking listening to women saying this only goes to prove the point that identity is meaningless, if you are female you will be silenced. Anyway, rant over, and they can stick their streaming service up their arses.