I’ve long suspected that gender-fluid, non-binary, etc is just another pendulum swing in fashion (i.e. clothing and accessories, not wider trends) but since it’s being worn by a generation of over-schooled but under-learned critical theorists, it can’t just be “our clothes are less traditional,” it has to be “we’re heroes who are disrupting old assumptions about gender!!!” which from there all but forced them to take the next step, “I’m not just dressed in a neutral way, I’m like LITERALLY gender neutral deep down in my soul (that I don’t believe in because ew, religion)!”