Gender: Woman. I do not self identify as anything.
I've been assigned girl, and woman, child and adult,.....these descriptors assigned to me based upon 1)biology 2)assumption 3)social expectations benign 4)through a social process much less benign.
Objectively I'm a woman. In some cases it's a helpful short cut.
I identify as a woman, even if I secretly wished to be a sea lion.
Whilst it might be 'nice' to self identify as anything I like, I'm not so self entitled, victim hood clutching and narcissistic to think others should accept my chosen self identity over years of quite pragmatic identification.
I always tick woman. Proud to be one, we have earned this over a millennia of struggle. I am not about to concede the identity to a bunch of individuals who are by any rational measure not biologically female, not recognisably woman on any pragmatic or scientific basis, and by any rational measure significantly impaired in their ability to apprehend reality.
Of course it would be better to rub some noses and stick to the facts: Female.
In some respects the empty category without signifiers has been established, where once a simple word conveyed a simple direct relation between another
Female - woman. At some point the category 'woman' was given a bunch of signifiers, and the simple direct relation between the word woman and female was replaced with too much emphasis on signifiers such as,......walk this way, talk this way,....the emphasis shifted from empirically derived facts and lived shared experience to the more culturally focused things such as how we behave, what we do, how we modify ourselves (I blame foucault at this point).
Then along came.......a bunch of women feminist scholars who lost their way and opened a Pandora's box of horrors. "let's talk about Gender" (if only Foucault had kept his musings to himself). It was a wrong turn.
I can not not be a woman simply because some gay guy, and some trans person decided to break the original clear descriptive relationship between my sex and and a simple word used to describe me and others like me. Much less am I prepared to be given ciss to distinguish between myself and others choosing to self identify as like me.
They believe by having filled the category with cultural ideologically created phantom signifiers, they then get to empty it, not just of its philosophical contents, but of me. Because one can not claim to be both trans and a woman all at the same time. They know it, I know it.
You give a description to something, then try to justify why you fit the description, then fail to fit that description so you then nihilisticically kill the very thing you aspire to be. Sick init!