>>3736This is something that I think is a very interesting question.
Obviously genders are spooks, they are concepts that essentialize certain traits as fixed coordinats to base your behavior on. The same is true for biological concepts, because even empiric systems are constructed and their claim for truth is no less spooky than the other.
What isn't a mere concept though is your lived experience. In a situation where the majority of people around you act upon concepts that might be nothing more than phantasms in their heads, they still have a social reality that will affect you. So the decision to change your gender identity isn't an affirmation of the spooky conecpt of gender as much as it is an of apropriation of gender. Instead of confirming with a concept assigned to you at birth you choose a concept that will give you your desired living experience.
And isnt actualising your desires an egoist act?