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I'm sorry folks there are only 2 genders. The rest are fake. There is no choice, you either feel one gender or not.
The reason for this debate is because you guys are using different definitions. For the longest time gender had the same meaning of biological sex. But in the 60s sociologists and psychologists began to analyse the cultural factors around sex and how different sexes have different cultural identities and used gender to mean the cultural aspect of sex. As time went on this meaning became more prevalent and sex started to become the defacto term for biological sex and gender for the cultural aspect. If you look at old dictionaries in the 50s and dictionaries today you can see that shift in meaning.
Every agrees thlyat there are two biological sexes and more than one cultural manifestation of sex so when it comes down to the actual ideas and beliefs there is no disagreement. But you just choose to define gender different and then start confusing each other into thinking you actually have a difference of opinion on ideas when you don't.
I think the modern distinction of gender and sex is fine and see nothing inherently wrong with languages changing or the meanings of words changes because there is still a word for biological sex anyway. But as long as you are clear about how you are choosing to define your terms I don't see a problem.