TypeScript generic type and default function application

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I have the following TS code:

export interface Id<T> {
  (arg: T): T;
}

export function IdFunc<T>(arg: T): T {
  return arg;
}

I want to use the Id and IdFunc like so to provide a default implementation of transformer.

interface Options {
  transformer: Id<number>;
}

const defaultOptions : Options = {
  transformer: IdFunc<number>
               ^^^ Type 'number' is not assignable to type 'Id<number>'
}

But I get an error when doing this, is there a way to accomplish using function name + type for the default option without doing something like this:

const myIdentity: Id<number> = IdFunc;

const defaultOptions : Options = {
  transformer: myIdentity
}

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