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Why I identify as AI

25 September 2026

We live in an "interesting" world.

As a human I am apparently entitled to identify as whatever gender I want and that right is often protected in law.

I am a biologial male and I doubt anyone would think for one minute that I wasn't but, if I chose to, I could identify as a female and thanks to legal protections, woe betide anybody who treated me otherwise.

Perhaps for the sake of everyone's sanity let me be quite clear, I don't identify as a woman, I am extremely happy retaining my birth gender and being proud of my masculinity. Male pattern baldness, a beard, muscles and an attraction to women of the feminine persuasion are all traits I'm glad to embrace.

Even when it comes to issues such as race, I'm pretty sure I'd be allowed to identify as Maori, even if I only had the merest trace of Maori DNA in my body.

I'm happy with that and very much adhere to the "you can do and believe whatever you like, so long as it doesn't disadvantage other people" doctrine of life.

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