Blast, I sent the DVD back this morning without thinking to check the deleted scenes - after watching it last night with metonymy, we fell to chatting rather than checking the extras.

anyway, point being, the concept was that Hedwig tore away someone else's identity because it might detract from his/her own.

That fits in with the way later he's dead keen on the wig and gives a history to him wanting to drag up as Angel. I still think having him as a him doesn't quite take the opportunity. I also think that Hedwig's domination of the identity of her band was made quite clear by the tearing up the passport scene, but yes, this would have made it clearer earlier.