There’s no historical precedent for the non-binary craze. Non-binary identities have existed in niche cultural contexts, but the mass adoption of gender as a hyper-personalized menu of micro-identities is entirely new. No civilization has ever had an entire generation of people insisting that gender should be opt-in, fluid, and unmoored from biological reality. That shift fundamentally undermines the work that transsexual women have done for decades. Public policy for transition was built around the idea that there are people with a demonstrable clinical issue who need to move from one side of the binary to the other. Not that anyone should be able to self-identify into anything at will. It’s not just theoretical. It’s actively diluting resources and complicating advocacy in ways that hurts the transsexuals that built the movement. Non-binary will probably end up being a fad. When gender identity is framed as purely self-defined, with no clinical or biological grounding, it doesn’t create a stable political movement, it just creates endless fragmentation.
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