Identities do have positive and neutral contingencies too—things one confronts in society because one has a given identity that are not threatening, but just neutral or even positive. Men have to go to men’s bathrooms and women to women’s bathrooms. This arrangement is indeed a contingency, of sexual identity. Yet it is so routine as to be essentially neutral. We don’t notice it.
Except when the lines to the two restrooms are of significantly different lengths? Or the restrooms’ sanitary conditions differ significantly? (He also addresses non-binary/trans issues)
