The phrase "always identified as" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's consistent identification or classification over time, particularly in contexts related to identity or roles.
Example: "She has always identified as a feminist, advocating for women's rights throughout her career."
Alternatives: "consistently recognized as" or "perpetually seen as".
I always identified as queer or LGBT-identified or pan.
She had always identified as gay.
This was the level that management had always identified as a breakeven sales level.
He was brought up as a girl, but always identified as a boy, which his family could not accept.
It's no accident that he was always identified as a corporate trainer, almost the embodiment of cutthroat maneuvers.
Sheik Yassin was always identified as Hamas's spiritual leader, and the group sought to distinguish between its "political" and "military" wings.
"I have to a hide who I am," admitted Nick, an 18-year-old student who said he always identifies as white despite having a Mexican mother.
Bechdel, 54, says choosing not to always identify as a "queer cartoonist" was a "seismic, psychic" shift, because "I'd gotten so used to thinking of myself as this marginal, subcultural animal who couldn't be part of a bigger world".
This finding is consistent with previous research which suggests that rape survivors do not always identify as rape victims, particularly when their experiences do not conform to stereotypical rape myths (Allison & Wrightsman, 1993; Kahn, Jackson, Kully, Badger, & Halvorsen, 2003; Koss, Dinero, Seibel, & Cox, 1988; Layman, Gidycz, & Lynn, 1996).
Today, after more than a decade of violent conflict and with both India and Pakistan in possession of nuclear weapons, it is echoed even among Kashmiri political leaders who have always identified themselves as "independence" leaders, as well as other prominent Muslim figures who have in the past campaigned vigorously against Indian power.
I have always identified more as European than as German (I am originally from Germany).
