When it's a spectrum, boxes are just a reasonable grouping for social means. If you're in a group who has embraced the idea of gender theory, you may make those boxes more granular, but that can be a shock to people that, until fairly recently, had accepted a binary option. In those cases, it may make sense to speak in more broad terms. To be clear, this meme is disingenuous and probably more than a little crass.
And some trans people don’t. Like sorry I fall into the contra camp. The only time I really understood gender beyond dysphoria and avoiding it was after two tabs of acid and several years of transition.
But it's a problem in general, humans like labels and groups. I. E., that's good for you and that's bad. It's easy and probably rooted in our evolution. Some people like different because they had good experiences in the past. Like new fruit wow good, tastes well and makes me feel good. Others, new fruit makes stomach ache... Third group oh new fruit, but nothing new. You can replace fruit with mushrooms or people.
Some people hype, some diss and some are indifferent.
From time to time they group up and fight each other, because one group has to be right.
It makes me sad, that we've had similar discussions and hate for over 2000 years...
Religion
Countries
Color of skin
Sex
Music genres
Sports clubs
Operating systems
Game console
Social media services
I over simplified a lot, but i hope some people feel the same.
Please let me know if I've said anything offensive, i don't know better, yet.
Oh I've had my fair share of discrimination but life's not not all about the downs. Some of the best people I know are from the same race as the people who beat my brother , called me a black cunt while I was going to grab a few beers from the corner store, shouted racial slurs at my mother Infront of me when I was 6.
Some people are shit. But posting a picture saying that all cis people are this single minded could offend people too.
Cis people often do not think about gender so you find that people who are very well informed about gender can't talk with the same amount of nuance as they do with other people who are very well informed about gender. You just have to simplify the concepts so that those who don't know them yet can understand.
Pardon me, I'm a cis brown male, I may be illinformed but should I be concerned about gender everytime I meet a new person. Or can I simply ask;
How's it going ?
What do you do ?
Rather than get to know someone through, what I thought was a rational method of approaching a fellow being - I have to think ...am I at an "informed level of nuances about gender" to approach this person?