I first started questioning this when I found out, several years ago, about individuals who were intersex (old term "hermaphroditic") from birth. As in, some people are born with mixed genitalia and/or sexual organs from both genders. It is often difficult to identify what gender that intersex children belong to, so many are assigned a gender, usually female (it's probably easier to explain if there is any sort of a vaginal opening or onset of female puberty later on). Perhaps not everyone belongs to the two traditional genders, male and female.
I came across a group on Facebook that wants Facebook to provide more than just "male" and "female" as its choices for gender in its profile description. This group wants Transgender, both male-female and female to male, to be included. I agree, partially. As a run-of-the-mill straightie, I always thought that transgendered individuals considered themselves members of the gender that they joined later on in life. A small qualm that I have with this group is that it includes Queen and King in its list of prospective genders, in addition to Androgynous. Queen and King sound more like titles than genders. Androgynous, I don't know...everyone, I assume, has either the organs or the chromosomes to define which gender one belongs to. I think that these are somewhat fair criteria, because one's organs can be changed to suit one's preferred gender.
Nevertheless, I wish this group luck, because I see no harm in making it known that one is transgendered if one so desires.
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