Yet Bill Nye edits one of his quite scientifically accurate piece on gender and how it's shaped by chromosomes to make you make or female. He's now all for the 70 genders going around now.
Gender is an issue where both ends of the spectrum are both partially right and partially wrong. Sex and gender, while often used interchangeably in common speech, are not exactly the same thing in the realms of biology and psychology. Sex is your physical anatomy, and it's either male, female, or intersex. Gender is your social roles based on your sex (role), psychological traits, your personal identification of one's own gender based on an internal awareness (identity), and how you express these psychological traits (expression). In the vast majority of people, these two things align, but for a small group of people, they do not, and when that occurs, it is called Gender Dysphoria. Now, this actually is only a very, very small percentage of the population (0.01% of males and 0.0025% of females), but in recent years has sort of become trendy to be this way. I often say that it's become "like gluten intolerance, it's become trendy to pretend you have an issue, but on the other hand, some people actually have one." The people who do have one are usually not the ones going around about 76 genders and all of that Tumberlina nonsense.
That's where those people get it wrong, they fail to account for individual differences and think those differences are an entirely different expression itself and therefore gender. These concepts we have for our genders in our society are actually fairly broad and can encompass many different personalities and variations of interests. In other words, they're not talking about differences in gender, but differences in personality and interests within gender, and trying to make every distinction possible to be its own independent gender. That's why almost every one of those gender expressions (bigender, gender fluid, pangender, etc.) is not recognized by any major psychological organization like the APA or NIMH, or even the WHO.
Now, that does not mean there is only two ways that gender can vary or that there's only two genders. There are cultures that have been and that still exist today with more than two genders, and it's always been that way, and in every society there is evidence that there are some people who do not identify with with some or all of the of the aspects of the gender assigned to their biological sex. People who do not fit into their society's aspects of gender exists everywhere and have existed throughout time.
That's why gender is less of a binary dichotomy, but more of a cluster of various psychological traits that culture says "that's this", especially considering that psychology is showing that men and women are really not that psychologically different when you take cultural differences away. It seems to be less of an issue of being some kind of different gender, but just have different traits that's different than the majority of men or women. Yes, it's true that there's not all of these different genders and all, but it's also true that just because you are not like most men or women doesn't mean you are an entirely different gender.
