Marie Monday

People should be able to be whatever they want, that's very important. Identifying is just a label, and that is important too to some extent, because as we can't escape these labels everyone needs to be able to choose a label that they're comfortable with. But in the end gender being made into a big deal in our culture is what caused all the harm, with different character traits, capabilities, interests, clothes, etc being attached to gender.
Say that a complex system of many genders was accepted as part of our culture. Then navigating this system correctly, gendering everyone in the right way etc, would mean that it would be a big part of our lives. Imagine how much occupation with the concept of gender that would require, which only validates the old mistake of making gender such a big deal. In the end we want people not to care about people's gender; right now it's one of the first things we (try to) register about someone, and in this hypothetical case it would probably be the first question we ask when we meet someone, after someone's name.
My hope is that by acknowledging a third gender and the fact that these things are a spectrum, everyone will drift towards acknowledging that they are somewhere on the spectrum instead of at the end, and things will become less of a big deal, just like what is happening with sexuality. I see a lot of teenagers around me being like: 'I might be a bit bisexual, I don't really know where I am on the spectrum and I don't really care' and so people make less of a fuss about sexuality, I like that. I did not think this comparison through though, I'm just writing as things pop up into my head, so I might not be satisfied with this whole analysis in a few minutes

Very true

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