Choosing who you are

[Anomalocaris]

Nobody chooses who they are, that's the whole point of identity, and this applies whether you're trans, cis, genderfluid, agender or bigender.

I don't think that is either demonstrably true, or is likely to be true.   There is undoubtedly a range of flexibility to each aspect of identity that varies from person to person.   A powerful sense of an inborn leaning in a aspect of personal identity in one individual may be matched by near total malleability of the same aspect of identity in another.

It is also all together unclear how much of even the most powerful sense of apparently inborn identity is truly inborn, or merely developed through a combination of early and highly influential environmental circumstances.

It is also all together unclear just how unmalleable even the most powerful and seeming set sense of inborn identity really is unmalleable.

One should not assert a convenient supposition or preferred generalization as overarching fact merely because one believes having such a supposition or generalization taken to be facts would support an apparently good policy, or resort to thinking whatever appears to support an a priori determined "good cause" is as good as fact.  


Doing so lends (hopefully) only short term support for the apparently sound policy, but acts both to open up the policy to legitimate attack, and degrade the esteem held of facture rigor and decrease the comparative disrespectability of those who does the same for odious reasons.