Yes, they do look stupid but I'm willing to overlook that fact if I can use them in Scrabble to get the X or Z on one of those points lucrative spaces.
I too have no idea what it's like to identify "somewhere" on the gender spectrum. For years we've had transsexuals telling us that they were born in the wrong body and want to identify/be identified with as the opposite gender.
Fair enough.
But genderqueer ? WTF ? Your kinda sorta man, your kinda sorta woman, whatever you feel like when you wake up in the morning ? You're a truck driver wearing jeans, cowboy boots, a t-shirt with Cat Diesel on it and a baseball cap with Freightliner emblazoned on it by day and you dress up as a French maid on the weekends ?
This is a "thing" now ? Something other than a fetish or a bad fashion sense ?
Sort of, but not exactly.
There's a whole swath of the population that feels ambiguous about their gender. If you see gender as a spectrum, they're somewhere in the middle.
I'm not genderqueer, myself. So, I don't know if it's appropriate for me to speak on their behalf. If you really want to understand it further, you can just ask some of them what's up. I can say a couple of things with some certainty, tho:
1) some of these folks are totally ok with their bodies and have no intentions of ever becoming more male or female. They're fine with always being gender ambiguous with the plumbing/body they were born with.
2) some are in the process of becoming the "other" gender, and will eventually probably self-identify as strongly male or female, he/she.
According to some definitions, at least 1% of the population is literally, physically intersex:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex
I don't know what % of the genderqueer folks are intersex. I'd guess some are and some aren't. And I don't think it matters. If someone has, say, outdoor male plumbing but just feels kind of female, who am I to argue? What does it matter how they dress?
