People do not "identify as" a gender. They ARE that gender.

The one person was going on about how I "identify as a woman".

I don't "identify" as a woman, I am a woman! (I think. Honestly I'm still figuring that one out!)

The whole "identifies as" thing comes off to me as "Oh sure, we'll TOTALLY acknowledge you're true nature!" in this backhanded compliment type of way.

Nobody goes "I identify as straight." or "I identify as 143cm tall."

And nobody goes "I identify as female." except for the occasional misguided queer.

It's almost exclusively someone else who does the "%s identifies as %s" thing.

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agender people are taxonomically nonbinary and most nonbinary people are trans (except for maybe some of the handful of kids raised by tryhards, but that's probably rarer than the people who had an error on their birth certificate that turned out to be prophetic)

we identify as the more specific labels because they're useful.

when i hear that construction i assume there's a little more to it if you were the person's close friend but it's not practical to go through a whole dissertation on microlabels and exceptions or qualifiers when we're just passing acquaintances.

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