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Ok, then your concept. "self-conception," is not the same as "identity." Yes, people can conceive of themselves as smart, or funny, or a good person. But that is different than the concept of identity in terms like "gender identity" or "ethnic identity", which refer to group membership.
First, I think that those two claims are actually two ways of saying the same thing, unless you mean "I am part of the black community" in the much different sense that a person can be part of any community if he or she lives among them, etc. But that of course is not what we are talking about.
Second, when you say "I can say with confidence that her first belief is wrong," what you are actually saying that there is a commonly accepted definition of "black" in the US (very roughly, that you have at least one ancestor who was living in sub-Saharan Africa at some time in the relatively recent past) and she does not meet that definition.
And that brings me back to the same point I have made over and over: The different meanings of "sex", "gender" and "gender identity." There is a difference between Rachel Dolezal saying "I am black [under the US definition thereof] and "I identify as black [despite not being genetically black]." The term "wigger," after all, has been around a good 30 years. Obviously, she was making the former claim, but that just points out the irrelevance of her as an example. People making claims about gender identity are doing just that: making claims about gender identity, not about sex. If Rachel Dolezal said, "I am of the male sex" you could prove her wrong by pulling down her pants. But if she said, "I identify as the male gender," you can't, because, again, an identity is an internal belief.
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