Genders?

[Aegon]

I think these new genders and gender identities are total bullshit. That's because all gender identity is total bullshit. Speaking from an American perspective (though this could apply elsewhere), gender and sexuality identities became a significant social construct only after World War II because the nuclear family model had no room for those uninterested in a wife and 2.5 children and a levittown. Not to say that these constructs didn't exist before the 1950s; they really started at the turn of the 20th century with Freud and other academics attempting to categorize and analyze everybody. But in the 1880s and earlier, gender and sexuality had no concrete social norm like it does today. But everybody has trouble believing this because the generation that grew up without these constructs is long dead. I recommend George Chauncey's Gay New York and Foucault's History of Sexuality to read up on this phenomena.

So yeah, I believe that the various gender identities are a natural byproduct of forcing people into certain identities. Nobody ever identified themselves as their gender before World War I, only their sex. Now everybody does. Weird "fake" genders is the step we take before we finally realize we shouldn't be forcing people into genders at all. It'll take some time.