This is the same argument you've advanced since you pivoted from 'you are who you say you are'. ie there are an extra special group of special men who are to be treated as different from other men, not just because they say the magic words 'I'm a woman' but also because they were given a certificate. Objectively these men are no different from any other men.
Those are not my words, but fundamentally that is how many identities work.
Some identities are imposed by need. A disabled person on the telephone buying a rail ticket might say, ''I am a disabled person'' in order to express their needs - that is a facet of their personal identity.
It has the opposite ''able-bodied'', but rarely do able-bodied people express that as an identity. They might say ''I'm healthy'', but they are expressing a stable steady state, not an identity. A blind person does not call themself '' a blind'' but a ''blind man'' or a ''blind woman''. Hence this is an identity, an identity of choice based on need, they need your compassion to facilitate their dignity. A left-handed person, doesn't need to say ''I'm a left handed person'', they are more likely just to say ''I'm left-handed'' because only rarely does this create need.
So identity can fit around cohesion or inclusion, or around features that cause a level of exclusion.
People variously identify around philosophical beliefs such as religion. ''I am a Christian'' or I am a ''Muslim'' or it is expressed through tokens. By definition these are ideologies. When you talk about your ''protected philosophical belief'', you are talking about an ideology that you've selected as your truth. Veganism likewise is an ideology.
In some cultures identities are bestowed, they can be shaken off; but in the UK identity may be a more simple choice. This relates to whether identities are personally internalised 'intrinsic' or external impediments of culture and/or education.
My female identity was never taught to me. It is not learned. I was punished at a young age as I tried to express it. It is not related to fetish or kink - I have never been interested in that. It is innate because it is deeply personal and feels like it was always there, and never not there. It is not shared, but unique to me. I learned later to express how I feel, when I needed connection, when I needed healthcare.
It is not an ideology in or of itself. It is more akin to the disabled person who expresses their identity because it expresses their needs, when they need help from compassionate people. Disability is not an option unless you are a person who refuses treatment. I have not refused treatment, therefore it is not a choice. It is my life, but not a lifestyle choice. I have never waved flags, I treat it as deeply personal because to me it is.
Accordingly, it is nobody else's business, and it is not your place to intrude upon it. I require nothing from you. I have no need of your permission. Permission is not your's to give. You have amply demonstrated that you are not a person who can be trusted with the identity of another person. Indeed you weaponise it. I do not need you to be kind. The law requires you to leave people to their dignity. What you have campaigned for is to strip me of dignity. You've worked to make my life that of a prisoner. It is a false imprisonment. A rigged trial. No justice. I'm not the only victim of this cruelty.
Typically people who are treated without justice are made angry - the Waspi women - the Horizon scandal survivors. They activate, they campaign, and you will support them perhaps because you recognise that injustice is an evil. And yet, you campaigned to strip me of dignity, to imprison me. You became the evil force.
Trans people tried to organise, tried to campaign, and activate for justice. But they were your target group, so you changed your principles, changed your values. These are the warning bells of those being captured by fascism. You've allowed yourself not to just be fascist, but you've engaged in its recruitment.
