Zephyrus
Tyrants and Slaves
New vocabulary always encounters resistance. I remember when using the word "partner" almost always meant you identified as a gay person. Now plenty of straight people use it to refer to their SO's.
I prefer cum receptacle but people are so rude about it.
That being said, in order for a new word to take off, it does have to be received with enthusiasm.
They also tend to suggest that transvestites, crossdressers and intersex people are the "gray area" between genders, but you could just say that intersex people and generally those with odd chromosone arrangements, are some kind of third gender or "other", but people who genetically belong to a gender, belong to that gender. Why do I make that distinction, well, we don't even know what it's like to "be" the other gender. Supposedly men and women even see colours differently, they have different hormone levels affecting their feelings, they have complex biological differences between them and males. So to say someone is totally female because they had a sex change is kind of primitive and pretentious.
So there are men who visibly and naturally have more estrogen than others and vice versa. Is it enough to say they are totally female if this cis male went through a complete gender change? I don't know to be honest. But it is enough for me to put him in the gray area because his hormonal levels are different than the average male.
I think it's fine to make up a new pronoun and use it, as well as identify oneself as whatever the fuck you want as long as you don't hurt others, but if people pushing new pronouns want to be taken seriously, they should stop saying things like that. Male and female are the genders.
Unless you're a hermaphrodite, you fit into the "restrictive" binary. But you don't have to identify by it. It's not that you are not the gender, but that you don't identify as it, and I think that sounds more reasonable than saying, "I have a penis, but I'm not a man." Try, "I have a penis, but I identify as something different than man or woman and would prefer to be treated as such."
This "gender binary" exists in a lot of plants and most animals, and has existed in most cultures in history. The only exceptions I can think of are a third gender in Sumerian mythology and a Hindu god that is both male and female.
How is xe doing? Xe is fine, how about xu? Xym doing fine, thank xu for asking. Do xu know what xey are doing tonight? Nah, Xy have no idea xude.
Progrexxive, brought to you by the letter X.
Which is exactly why people are better off not arguing against this "Western gender binary" and simply saying they personally identify themselves as something different from how people would identify them based on their genitalia and chromosomes.