How to Use self-identification in a Sentence

self-identification

noun

• In a decade, Scheiber suggests, the shift in class self-identification may be nearly complete.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2026
• Let’s let go of the self-identification with boredom or over-stimulation claiming to overshadow our path to progress.
  — Tony Lobl, Christian Science Monitor, 4 Aug. 2026
• After all, if self-identification is enough to make someone a woman, who's to say that Freedom and White aren't now women too?
  — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 11 Aug. 2026
• There is no league clause that states self-identification as a woman is sufficient to establish eligibility.
  — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2026
• But its parliament has just passed controversial amendments to such laws, which remove the right to self-identification and narrow the definition of ‘transgender’.
  — Harriet Marsden, TheWeek, 31 Mar. 2026
• Opponents of gender recognition reform argued that self-identification would allow predatory men to access women-only spaces and harm women.
  — Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2026
• The film unfolds as an investigation exploring the contemporary art world while raising self-identification elements.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 10 Aug. 2025
• The unanimous ruling was seen by supporters of self-identification as a watershed moment, pushing India ahead of much of South Asia on transgender rights.
  — Aakash Hassan, Christian Science Monitor, 31 July 2026
• Love Island had shifted what had previously been an unshakable self-identification and stumbled into comic profundity.
  — Anna Peele, Vulture, 20 May 2026
• The complaint argues the policy relies heavily on self-identification, with limited objective requirements for transfer.
  — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 1 May 2026
• The show’s name referred to their self-identification as helpless babies overwhelmed by the pressures of modernity, comforted only by coating themselves in fancy serums and moisturizers to recreate the peaceful, placental insulation of the womb.
  — Literary Hub, 9 Apr. 2026
• Even when BookTok does rally around a quote-unquote serious writer—such as Sally Rooney or Ottessa Moshfegh—there is a veneer of genre favoritism and eerie self-identification.
  — Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 8 July 2026
• The memo said Mamdani shows Democrats are too radical − citing his self-identification as a democratic socialist, calls for policing reform, and his criticism of Israel and its treatment of Palestinians.
  — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 29 Oct. 2025
• The debate around West’s book has focused almost exclusively on litigating the happiness of her relationship, but Adult Braces offers another example of the collapse of self-identification.
  — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2026
• Instead, Republicans campaign against gender healthcare for minors, gender self-identification for adults, and anything that introduces children to LGBTQ themes.
  — David Weigel, semafor.com, 21 Aug. 2026
• Mamdani’s sudden rise to prominence after his stunning upset victory over Cuomo in the 2025 Democratic mayoral primary, and his self-identification as a democratic socialist, has caused consternation among some of the city’s business elite.
  — Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 28 Jan. 2026
• Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar Plath’s only novel is a semi-autobiographical account of a young woman’s descent into mental illness and search for self-actualization and self-identification; this is another one that not only depicts a coming-of-age but has certainly helped fuel more than a few.
  — Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2019
• And while Americans’ overall ideological self-identification looks stable in the aggregate (37% very conservative/conservative, 34% moderate, 25% very liberal/liberal), a January 2025 Gallup poll shows that this steadiness hides tectonic tensions tugging beneath the surface.
  — Robert T.f. Downes, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2026