[CliffFletcher]

We’ve made great progress in the last 50 years moving away from traditional definitions of masculinity and femininity. The goal was to erase the outdated notions of gender altogether and just let people be who they choose. If people want to wear dresses and makeup, let them. If they want to do wear their hair short and do combat sports, let them. If they want play with guns or play with dolls, be aggressive or compliant, wear makeup or shave their hair - let them choose without labelling any of those choices masculine or feminine.

So reifying those preferences by making gender a core identity is a step back. It imposes arbitrary categories on a spectrum of behaviour. It reinforces the association of dolls and dresses with girls, and guns and trucks with boys.

Biological sex is innate and (in almost all cases) binary. Gender isn’t. It’s a made-up concept that scrunches up a whole spectrum of human behaviour into two categories based on cultural expectations. We should be moving past it rather than reinforcing it.