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This is a bad take on identity politics, unless you "identify" as a jerk who doesn't care about others and wants to be sexist, transphobic, or racist.
Identity politics is "we should organize people based on how they categorize themselves", and that's bad for a whole list of reasons but not any of what you said.
The thing you're talking about really does exist, but I think "you must change who you are" may have a more precise name.
I think that "puritanical", "tyrannical", or "bigoted" politics may be more accurate.
What i meant was people acting in bad faith will not compromise "because that's who i am" makes for a very difficult situation.
Agreed on that. "But I'm an evangelical, and recognizing their gender is against my beliefs!" is a hell of a bad take, and deserves to be properly labeled as the bigotry that it is.
Not to mention that it's bad theology. There were plenty of folk in Roman Israel who lived as what we now call homosexual or transgender, and there's no way that the Word of Omniscient God Made Flesh was ignorant of them, and yet the sum total of what Jesus said mentioned neither at all.
(Title caps since it's said as an alias, not for emphasis. Separate comment because politics and religion are properly separate.)