Genders: there are only two. Here’s why.

Many people are confused by the claim, widely accepted today, that there are multiple genders. In fact, this has even been enshrined in law in some countries. However, this feels wrong. We intuitively know that it's a lie. And of course, it is. But explaining why and how the lie is made is not so easy, partly because most of us never consider this, or even gender at all. Some people think that gender is the same as sex; which it is not. So let me explain. The first clue can be found by studying one of the many lists of the 'available genders'. To begin with, these all say that an individual can pick their gender and even invent a new one, if he were to find that his particular mix of weirdness were not already catered for. Or, we can mix then and be what -- bi-gender? Tri-gender? Poly-gender? Or maybe just 'gender fluid' and float from one to the other like a will o' the wisp? A plethora of 'genders' Then, look at the list of genders itself; I only include the first eig