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I have said in the past that labels are for food stuffs not people and been badly misunderstood. People have the right to label themselves as they see fit as long as it is sane (I won't believe you if you claim to be a fire hydrant). For some this sense of identity is important. Your identity as a first nations person, your identity as a LGBTQ member etc. but too many times identities are weaponised. Need I mention "white power" ?
Much of the division we see today is because people concentrate too much on labels and not on talking to other human beings. Shakespeare said it best and better than I ever could.

"I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge. The villainy you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction."
(III.i.49–61)