Actually pretty interesting. I think we're starting to creep up on the actual numbers, as far as you can measure such a thing. I think comphet keeps a lot of people who would otherwise fall somewhere on the bi/pan spectrum from ever experimenting and realizing it about themelves, and I bet that population is actually quite large. As far as transness goes, I would be willing to believe a number within the realm of ~3% to even 5%. I think further complicating this whole thing is that human sexuality and gender identity is a lot more nebulous than the very rigid, medically-originated terminology we use implies. A lot of the identity labels we use (homosexual, transsexual/transgender, etc) were originally medical diagnoses that were later transposed onto cultural identities, which carries a lot of baggage that I think has been left unaddressed, such as the rigidity of their definition, but that's probably for a post for another time. Anyway, just thought it was neat neat, especially the state queerness leaderboards.

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or genders outside man and woman, it gets real bad (in my opinion at least). Nonbinary is a fucking awful term because it's just a negation of the binary gender system

we don't have cultural associations for specific additional genders, and we may never collect enough enough people of the same kind of nonbinary to develop one. I'm not even convinced all of us agenders are sharing an interiority.

one thing we could do is balkanize the binary but the social inertia of it all would make it like how blowing up the moon would give you a pile of rubble where the moon used to be instead of giving the earth a ring.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 2 days ago*

    Yeah I guess I should've added that I don't really see a fix for this problem, it's just something I've noticed. For better or for worse, nonbinary is the term for third and beyond genders, at least at legal level in the US. We're kind of stuck with it unless a drastic change in the culture happens or something along those lines. The real time to have solidified other terms was roughly the period between 1870-1930 when the medical terminology and categories were being worked out. Queer people would've had to have organized a unified front and hammered this stuff out, but the community basically didn't exist or was extremely fragmented at that point. Ironically these medical terms, particulary for trans people, are what helped trans people discover that there were others like them and gave them language to rally around. So I'm not saying it's all bad, and I've certainly benefitted tremendously from gender affirming care. It's just an unfortunate historical consequence that I don't see people talk about is all.

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