[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by Jords

Its an extremely holistic approach to gender but really unnecessary. Most of these terms kinda just describe a person's 'opinion' on gender i.e. your 'concrete gender' is not "gender fluid" but you can believe that gender is fluid - if that makes sense? - and would categorise you probably under "bi-gender" if you believed your own gender is fluid.

In my opinion: male, female and bi-gender male (male who is sometimes female)/bi-gender female (female who is sometimes male) cover gender categories. If you are trans - you would consider yourself as newly male or newly female whichever the case - I see "transgender" as more of a process.

Just as with sexuality: straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual. All the other fancy terms (e.g. asexual, demisexual, pansexual) just describe 'opinions/feelings' of sexuality... If youre "asexual" you dont experience sexual desire, but if youre only romantically interested in/drawn to the opposite sex then you are still straight. "Demisexuals" are bisexual people that focus on an emotional bond, if they tell me 'need an emotional bond but only interested in the same sex' then they are gay. "Pansexuals" are bisexual people that have no preference between males, females, bi-gender males and bi-gender females, in my opinion.

I LOVE THESE TOPICS.

Yup, I agree with pretty much all of this.

And maybe I am getting 'sex' and 'gender' mixed up, but if so, why are there both 'sex' and 'gender' answers on the same questionnaire? You have the male and female options...but then all of the other random things added on. This is part of the reason I think it will just be confusing for teens. If someone is (for example demi-girl) they are BOTH female and demi-girl surely? So many of the options appear to be personality traits and nothing at all to do with actual gender.

Showed this to my partner and he said that before long, you won't be able to ask the sex of your baby...or to refer to it as a boy or a girl just incase in a few years it turns out that in their head they are not a boy or a girl. Might sound dramatic but this does seem to be the way things are going :S