As someone who is genderqueer, allow me to explain something:

There are two genders and several gender identities.

The APA makes a strong distinction between the two

Gender refers to the attitudes, feelings, and behaviors that a given culture associates with a person’s biological sex.

Gender identity refers to “one’s sense of oneself as male, female, or transgender”



Genderqueer, nonbinary, agender, etc. are gender identities and not genders. Male and female are both genders and gender identities.

Male and female are the only two genders, seeing as male and female are the only biological sexes (intersex people do not constitute a third sex but a mix of sexually dimporphic, which by the way means two forms, parts or underdevelopment of their sexually dimorphic parts) so given that there is no third sex to attribute any behaviors to, there cannot be a third gender.

Any “gender identity” that is not in terms of male and female (be it absolutely one or the other, bits of one and pieces of the other, or none of the above) are not valid as gender identities (they may be valid in other ways but surely in ways that are not relevant to LGBT+)

The”Everyone is valid uwu” game is a nice one to play, but inconsistent with simple logic when applied to the definitions set by the American Psychological Association.

~Mod King Endymion