I think the whole concept of how one “self-identifies” was a wrong turn. It fortifies the error that each of us can create a personal “reality” and force others to live in it.
I remember writing on FR years ago, “Why can’t we all ‘self-identify’ as Earthlings?”
Great way of putting that. It's not enough that the reality deniers choose to embrace delusion, they demand that the rest of us play pretend, or else.
'Tis the nature of lies. If they were true, the forced validation, the threats, the bullying, the false accusations et al wouldn't be necessary. Falsehood witnesses against itself though its desperate, devious attempts to set up camp. Then the only thing left for it to use is the power base by which to destroy opposition. Hence the obsession with power.
Same root as islam: submit or die.
Say, whatever happened to the left's demand for the "right to privacy"? Seems this "right" only applies to those who need cover their evil deeds. The predator gets all the privacy he wants, but the innocent child, not so much.