I enjoyed reading your perspective on this topic my friend, thank you for sharing with us. Nicely written!

I can identify as a changeling I think ;D

In that I've always harbored this ingrained belief that no outside source of authority was or ever is to maintain authority over my being and what I choose to do or who I choose to be.

I think a genuine person will go through slow progressions of change if they are able to identify areas of their life they would like to improve.

Someone who may not be as genuine may quickly make "role player" changes and be quickly identified as phony by their social circle(s).

Overall perceptive awareness of oneself and otherly awareness (as I like to call it) may be the distinguishing factor between someone who is more grounded in who they think/know they are, and someone who doesn't.

At the beginning stages of adulthood I chose to be identified as an alcoholic drug addict. It wasn't until I could see that I was making the ultimate choice to live this identity, and it wasn't until I realized that the social circles enjoyed victimhood grounded group recovery sessions that I said "screw this, I want to be someone else.", and was able to make the appropriate lifestyle changes, that true changeling transformation occurred. There's a lot of "Stone him!" that comes with this type of thinking of course. Misery loves company :D

Sometimes choosing to identify as something can have permanent impacts. In so many ways, because of the lifestyle choices that come with the identity choice.

The LGBTQ group from my perspective is one that fights for recognition, validation, and acceptance.

Imagine if a pubescent is manipulated into a sex change, only to later realize it was the worst decision that someone else made for them of their life.. This person has a choice if they have changelinged their stance on the social group. They either fight against it, in defense of protection of children and natural development or from some other standpoint, or instead they forever defend it, likely from a victimhood standpoint.

Then there's the aspect of whoever that persons parent is. They have similar choices to make in another context entirely. It would be quite a burden to bear to a self aware parent to realize they assisted in altering their child in a way they can never fix back to normal. But then again a self aware parent would probably never allow their child to get a sex change.

The rabbit hole goes very deep on this one, especially noting the agendas behind socially retarded political agendas.

I think I'll leave it there for now.

This was enjoyable to consume with my morning coffee,

Greetings friend.