Gender is a contemporary way for the young ego to establish their ego uniqueness with the latest behavioral set of clothes. It is not different from an actor researching a time period to help make their character become more authentic to that period. This behavioral tweak becomes part of the persona or mask, with people needing to label to help describe their gender, so others are more aware of the character they wish to play. If the character is not clear cut, the label helps the audience fill in the blanks, so the play makes more sense.
I remember one Halloween I went as a mummy wrapped in strips of white sheets. After running from house to house, the neighbor started to ask me If was an accident victim, since I was unraveling. I told them no, I was a mummy, so they could see my character. This is how it works.
It is not much different from school children becoming part of labeled group like a jock, nerd, party animal, popular, loner, class clown, etc. These labels describe the chapter profile that all agree upon and understand, and you can pick or fall in line. Adults do the same thing based on cultural stereo-types that describe and help to reinforce the character profile; Bible toter, red neck, blue collar, Bronx, California girl, hippie, goth, or what ever.
This latest fad came about due to the negative stereo type of men by the Left wing propaganda machine; toxic, which tries to neutralize the strong male and alter what it is to be a natural woman, since abortion is manmade and does not sell well if we also teach natural. The children feel a need to water down in both directions, into variations of he-she and she-he of different proportions. This is made easier by single moms who try to be father and mother, based on a female version of male stereo-types.
It would not be so bad if this if this did not involve drugs and surgery to make irreparable changes. In my day, you had the druggies but that was not the adults feeding the children drugs, but children finding their own for altered states of reality to escape the reality of war and racism. None of this is natural but it is all ego centric and often driven by the times. The children appear to be wanting to get away from the stress of fake news divide on male and female by compromising, for each other, in terms the divide created between natural or man made, men and women, made more confusing by mothers who have to and try to play both roles.
The Left started this by saying classic male and female were social constructs. Once they tampered with the classic construct, to install their own social constructs all the way to transgender, now they try to sell us that their latest social construct is innate and not due their educational system and the propaganda machine they run that include Hollywood.
Let the kids play, but do not allow drugs and surgery, until they are adults; 18. Children will change their minds. Or allow the victims to sue the DNC, if they change their minds, and were pressured by this money making sterilization scam. Money is the motivator.