The entire PURPOSE of labels is to allow us to stop thinking and skip right to drawing conclusions. Encouraging people to base their identity in superficial details and to dig no deeper is NOT the sort behaviour I think we should encourage if we want to actually improve as a society.
Adjectives are labels.
Who were you asking the question of? What sort of answer did you want? Were you asking me, personally, of my thoughts? Were you asking the boys and girls in the analogy? Were you asking the transfolk in the analogy? The androgynous? Or wee you looking for some objective truth? Because each of those would likely end up with a different answer, and it's not clear at all to me which answer you were looking for or why.
I guess I was looking for an explanation of something I found unclear and confusing, in order to discern a broad graphic of your views. Why, for example, you constructed the analogy so that trans boys can't be in the boys' clubhouse.
Because I highly doubt little children would allow a transboy in their clubhouse, children are intolerant. I wouldn't let a transboy into my clubhouse, I would have just said she was a girl an made her get out of my club house (had I had such a thing).
The entire PURPOSE of labels is to allow us to stop thinking and skip right to drawing conclusions. Encouraging people to base their identity in superficial details and to dig no deeper is NOT the sort behaviour I think we should encourage if we want to actually improve as a society.
I think you are both right and wrong here. First, you are right that it is impossible to fit all of oneself entirely under one label, but multiple labels could very accurately describe someone. You may need many labels, but you could definitely do it. Just on an odds basis someone has to share some behaivor or trait with at the very least one other person, so you could create a label for all those people who have it, and then construct individuals by combining multiple labels. Since you have to share at most everything with someone, then there would be a label for practically everything that makes up you. To focus on one label would be naive, you have to consider the sum of all the labels that make up a person. One is not simply straight or transgender-ed, one is also black or white or Asian (etc.), liberal or conservative, cautious or carefree, social or introverted, ad infinitum (or just for long enough that I don't want to write it all up
).
also if you really got into it we would need sub-labels too, like I am white, with ancestors from x,x, and x places since the last common ancestor's death (listing people all humans have in common would be superfluous, when addressing humans). Also, I am liberal but specifically I believe in x,y, and z, so I am not just liberal but I also belong with other people who believe in x,y, and z more specifically.