The entire concept of talking about gender being “fluid” while proceeding to divide it into an increasingly complex framework of discrete classes is very meta.

The entire concept of talking about gender being “fluid” while proceeding to divide it into an increasingly complex framework of discrete classes is very meta. People are more complex than that, let them be! I do get that young people seek to gain a labeled identity (mine was “metalhead”) but that does not mean the rest of the society should play along. This creates a dangerous feedback loop: the more acceptable the complex set of identity drawers gets, the more difficult it is for a person to validate their inherent feeing of being different. Thus, through pain they invent new boxes, these get picked up and normalized globally making it harder for the next guy to answer “I’m different than any of this, who am I?” There’s a balance to the tension of discovering one’s identity. Making it too easy will cause suffering as will making it unnecessarily hard.