On identity, finding your why, and burning your boats

Understanding identity through trans persons and conservatives who shop at Born United

It was surreal.

I think I’m using that word correctly.

The person—a PhD in biology who had gained a following online as an “anti-woke” crusader—was arguing that there was no such thing as identity. This was during the height of the trans hysteria on social media. In order to claim that being trans was merely a figment of someone’s imagination, he said som…