BOTTOM LINE:
“Identifies as” is a clever bit of propaganda because sentence (A) appears to assert something as fact through the use of the verb phrase “identifies as.”
Keep in mind that verbs usually denote action; they denote that something real is happening.
The equivalent sentence (B), however, shows that the appearance of fact in sentence (A) is an illusion, a clever verbal trick.
Leftists are sneaky, so you’ve got to watch them like a hawk.
It’s like saying “I identify red as green, and green as red.”
I just tell this to the cop when I’m pulled over for going through a red light.
Then I have a screaming excrement-fit when he says “I don’t care what you identify it as, you can’t go through the intersection when the red light is on.”
It’s really no different than the people who will argue from now until you walk away from them that the earth is flat, or that the United States didn’t land 12 men on the moon.
I just tell the freaks to their face “You have every right to identify as a woman, just as I have every right to look at you and identify you as a man.”
I hope I live long enough to really participate in the backlash.
"I identify as someone who rejects any identification other than your chromosomes. You have to accept that."
I identify as someone who didn’t read the article.
Saying “identifies as” is the same as “I know I’m not, but I’m saying I am anyway.”
“imagines themself as”
In such cases where a person says “I identify as ...” it equates to the same meaning as “I think I am ...” Therefore, this is inaccurate thinking. Perhaps what such persons means to say is “I identify as masculine.” or “I identify as feminine.” because their DNA will always tag their genders either XX or XY which is tangible. While the phrase “I identify as” means “I think I am” which is intangible as it is a feeling not an actuality, though one can express such feelings by a stereotypical display of masculinity or femininity.
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I think there is a difference in those last sentences -
“The sentence (A) “Smith, born male, identifies as female” is equivalent with the sentence (B) “Smith, born male, believes that he’s female.”
If Smith identifies as female, that tells me that he sees this as his identity, and how he wants others to see him/treat him as a woman.
There is a big difference IMO between that and the next sentence. So he can believe he is a female, so what. It says nothing about he wants to be treated.
I don’t think those sentences are equivalent at all and what’s more I don’t GAF.
Trying to get liberals to apply logic and reason instead of their feeeewings, is a hopeless exercise.