protip for people who feel compelled to say "identifies": replace "identifies as" with "says they are" and see how your statement looks then
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"x% of millennials say they are gay or bisexual": sure, whatever "he says he is a farmer": fine, but probably redundant; do you doubt him? "inclusive of women and people who say they are women"
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my point here is just, you know, be careful with your language. annotative meaning is nowhere near sufficient to capture everything your audience will get out of a piece of writing and "identifies as" has been a weasel-word to get around saying "I don't believe you" for a while
