It really has gone past the point of absurdity into downright insanity. Like the article SteveQJ cited recently, about a British woman arrested for exposing her penis in public. Yes, you read that right. Another Web site I frequent has a pulldown menu on the personal profile page for indicating your preferred gender identity. Here are the contents of that menu. I’m not making this up: Male Female Other It’s Complicated Agender Androgyne Bigender Cisgender Female Cisgender Male Demi-female Demi-male Female to Male FTM Gender Fluid Gender-neutral Gender Nonconforming Gender Questioning Gender Variant Genderqueer Intersex Male to Female Man Neither Neutrois Non-binary Pangender Queer Trans Man Trans Woman Transgender Transgender Female Transgender Male Transgender Man Transgender Person Transgender Woman Transfeminine Transmasculine Transexual Transexual Female Transexual Male Transexual Person Two-Spirit Woman Really, 43 genders to choose from? Of course a lot of these are variant labels for the same thing: Am I a man, male, or cisgender male? Is TaraElla a trans woman, transgender female, or transexual person? But that’s just the point: all this semantic hairsplitting, not to mention umbrage at the use of the wrong label, serves no purpose other than to convince reasonable people that you have gone off the deep end. We need to cut it out and start talking about real issues.