LogFAQs > #895799055

Even if you believe in fluid gender identity (and you probably should by now), there isn't really 50, 70, or 100 individual ones. Just people that are bad at information architecture.

People have characteristics related to their identity. Their physical sex, their sexual preference, their behavior... Each of these have only a few possibilities, even if you add edge cases and ambiguous ones. The combinations of those makes you who you are as far as gender identity goes.

Eg: Someone who is born with male parts, who is attracted to females and behaves like society's stereotype of a male. 3 separate, independent pieces. They would be 3 different questions on a form with a few options each if you wanted to drill into someone's identity.

But no. People want a SINGLE flag that defines everything. So they took every combination of those properties and gave an individual name to every single one of them.

All that did is make things way more complicated than it needed to be, and is slowing down society's progress when it comes to accepting all the different kind of people. A surgeon, a psychologist and a stylist require a very different piece of information when they ask you what you are. Using the same word/expression to answer all those questions at once is just forcing people to google wtf your answer meant.