Member Since: 5/27/2016
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Sex and Gender are not the same thing, despite common misconception.
When it comes down to it, if I identify as a man, and you identify as a man as well, there are certain behaviors, attitudes, ideas, values, feelings, etc. that we may have in common based on the socially constructed idea of "man", but there is no consensus (which is part of why its demonstrably a social construct) so we are both already two different shades of "man".
I think the more you think about it, the easier it is for people to come to the conclusion that gender as it currently stands is kind of pointless to label. It makes sense in a world that is coming to grips with the reality of these things and fighting against them, but in the distant future, gender roles should be dismantled and being "genderqueer" (while a real identity) would not be a necessary distinction, we would all just be different people. Ideally at least. The same applies to sexuality in identity. In a world where being pansexual or homosexual is not perceived as an abnormality (so read with a negative slant), the need to differentiate yourself from others as one would not be as strong, if even apparent at all.
So yeah, my answer is infinite, but as the need to fit into this world (that is currently a gender binary) persists, labels are a way of combating this inequality that I and many other people see as useful.
To anyone saying two, does strong evidence to the contrary not do it for you, or why are you sticking with two?
There are at least 3/4 large categories if we recognize that "neither" and "somewhere between the two" exist as options in a false binary.
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