I hear genders and gender identity described as boxes a lot, although mainly by Terfs. But the thing is, that's not how gender should work. The idea of gender as boxes is so restrictive.
So I thought up a better analogy for how gender should work and function, at least in my opinion.
Genders are like planets.
There's some that more people are on, and some that hardly anyone is on at all.
Some people live on one planet their whole life, others move from the planet they where born on to a different one.
Some people go from planet to planet, feeling at home on each one only sometimes. Some feel at home no matter what planet they're on, some feel at home on more than one.
Some people don't feel at home on any planet at all and instead choose to live in space. Some orbit around a planet or move between planets. Some stay on a planet sometimes then eject themselves into space others. Some don't like any known planets, but still want a planet and go searching for a new one to call their own.
And the thing is, no one on any planet are the same. They don't think, act, look or present the same. The only thing they have in common is the planet they call home.
People from the same planet might not even describe it the same way. And some people don't even know how to describe it, and that's okay.
People from different planets don't understand what it's like to feel at home on another planet, but they still learn from each other and understand a little about their planet through communication.
And no one, not a single person, is under any obligation to stay on a planet, or even live on a planet at all.
Now that doesn't sound restrictive at all, now does it?
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