Researching gender because I am still figuring out the whole topic. It seems difficult for people to comprehend as we tend to conflate sex with gender roles we socially place on sex. Ironically, I have been questioning gender roles since childhood, such as why must boys like blue and girls like pink, so I don't know why I struggled to figure the whole thing out. Probably because I wasn't listening to the scholarship behind the topic, but conservatives who react to the topic, such as Ben Shapiro and Steven Crowder who don't understand the issue themselves. Also the crazy libs who propagate the topic but don't understand it themselves are also the problem, as they become the examples of how crazy the libs are in the eyes of non libs.
Anyway, below is a gender map I found:
Interactive Map: Gender-Diverse Cultures
The problem I have with the new gender fad in culture and science, is science is not doing it's doing its job, unraveling the truth, but is pandering to this irrationality. If you look at human DNA, males and females differ by an entire chromosome; X=female and Y=male. The y-chromosome of the male contains 55 genes while the x-chromosome of females contains 900 genes. These genes are the baseline in terms of the main genetic potential for gender.
On the other hand, there is no genetic proof for any other gender definition, besides male and female, with 1% of those combined 1000 or so genes. Yet science is supporting the premise that somehow 1% or fewer genes has more genetic priority and potential, than the 99% genes found in conventional male and female chromosomes. This makes no sense and tells me that choice and will power has to be in play. Natural does not work that way, but willpower is a possible wildcard.
I tend to think the gender fad is a social engineering and free market decision, and not a science decision, since the basic genetic logic goes against this premise. The current trend appears to be to pander to the left, while creating long term problems, so business can offer solutions at a cost. Each cross dresser, is a potential pile of money, due to all the unnatural changes needed, for them to be called natural, by the marketing team. This new person with artificial additives will be even better than the old one with his 1000 natural genes for support.
It may come down to should be tell the child there is no gender Santa Claus. Or do we allow the child to linger in their fantasy, for as long a possible? I think one should be allowed to linger, but one should also be aware of the genetic disparity, so one is also aware that willpower plays a key role. It may be good will power exercise even if the goal is not what you may expect.
Say we have a child whose family; has no history of alcohol abuse. This teen boy gets in with the wrong crowd and become an alcoholic. Since there is not much in the way of genetic history, his alcoholism is not driven by genetics. It is driven by will power, choice and repetition, hanging with the crowd, until there is an addiction. He choses that crowd, he willfully lies and sneak out behind his parents back and drinks to he passes out. The final addiction can be traced to brain chemical secretions that have appeared within the brain, because of his willful behavior with alcohol. This can feel like an instinct, eventually, since the ego, cannot just shut it off like in the early days. However, it is really a subroutine connection to addiction that overlays another base instinct.
The drunk boy might wish to assume this is genetic, since the alcoholism drives him like an instinct. But this explanation can be disproven due to no genetic evidence of alcoholism in his family over many generations.
Instead, the obsession is connected to an addiction subroutine, based on a firmware template, that can be used by the ego with a variety of variables. One can insert food, drink, shoes, sex, power, drugs, gambling, risk taking, popularity, video gaming, etc., into the template, and through long term choice and repetition get an underlying obsession routine; lingering willpower. This subroutine layer can then appear to modify any number of natural foundation firmware; hunger, sex, thirst, self defense, etc., epigenetic changes.
Again, I am for freedom of choice and freedom of the pursuit of happiness. However, one has to be clear about how this works so one is not pursuing happiness and choice, while being totally irrational and unprepared. This will end in disappointment since it does not reflect how reality has to go. I am not against these fads, but I am against going into this fad with blinders on.