# What's too "Loony Left" for you?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-too-loony-left-for-you/969503>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 11, 2022, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-too-loony-left-for-you/969503 "2022-08-11T18:54:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2022, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-too-loony-left-for-you/969503/220 "2022-08-15T23:54:49Z")

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But as Mijin responded,

> [@Mijin](#):
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> That’s not claiming there are n genders. We may as well complain about users being allowed to choose from 250 emoticons (or whatever the number is) that they can put next to their name.

Having a preferred specialized phrase to describe your own gender identity doesn’t mean that you are declaring that phrase to be some kind of officially recognized separate gender category.

Any more than preferring to describe your eye color as “slate blue with grayish-green specks” means that it can’t be validly described on official documents with one of the [ten or so standard eye color codes](https://pdfslide.net/documents/missouri-the-2018-mvr-access-and-decoder-digest-missouri-the-2018-mvr-access.html?page=7) for standardized color names like “blue” or “gray” or “brown”.

(When looking up official lists of eye color codes I was a little startled to find that all of them seem to include “pink” as one of the standard eye colors, but then realized that duh, many people with albinism do have eyes that appear pink. Diversity and inclusion for the win!!)

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