This is why modern Identity politics which is based on the notion that human behaviour is entirely a social construction is so silly. Proof that even your memory is guided by your DNA.
It’s not black or white. How we behave is obviously heavily influenced by our initial DNA but there’s clearly a heavy influence on “mind” from external factors. It has been shown (proven?) that we can grow beyond things like “identity politics.”
There is a big difference in definition depending on what part of the term "epigenetics" you emphasize.
Emphasizing "epi" means you are looking at architecture/mechanistic of chromatin and how they affect function. Emphasizing "genetic" means you care about whether the mechanism of interest is actually inherited.
There are some mechanisms that could perhaps be inherited through maternal contribution of enzymes involved in creating the marks. But trying to imagine how somatic epigenetic markers can be transferred to germ cells and then somehow transmitted to offspring past the epigenetic erasure that happens during fertilization is tough. It is definitely an area of research that I think is actually more interesting than studying the mechanisms themselves.
This is a pretty big non sequitur. And a conflation of "identity politics" with sociology. And a misrepresentation of sociology!