identifies as

Suggested IDEN'TITY, noun - "sameness" tempts one to ignore perceivable apartheid aka being partial (living) within whole (process of dying).

self-identified

Every self represents a differentiated partial, hence "oneself"....self-identified aka different-same represents a suggested contradiction.

identity

Differences (partials) exist within sameness (whole); hence only within sameness (process of dying) can there be differences (living).

One doesn't need to identify as anything; one needs to sustain self (apartheid) within everything.