[dibbsonline]

The author says they chose to identify as a mammal, but I'm pretty sure if you are choosing then it's not real.

[dalke]

Do you mean that these are all granfalloons, and fundamentally meaningless?

Otherwise, the type of identity here is the same as the other identify choices mentioned: race, gender, "religion, political party, sexual orientation, even species". (I assume the last includes furries.)

The problem of course is that most people consider some of those to be a karass, making them real enough in our consensus model of the world.

[thescribe]

The choice to identify as as a mammal may be a 'bad faith' choice in the Sartreian sense.

[dalke]

Now we just need dibbsonline to clarify.