text: I find this new movement of trying to label oneself very interesting. When I was young, I looked almost exactly the same as Nicholas, very androgynous, but I was female.  I was so upset when anyone tried to label me (calling me a dyke, fag, queer, tom-boy, etc.). I wanted to avoid labels; I was a woman, and being a woman can mean a lot of different things. Now everyone is straining to come up with as many new labels as there are people. It's kind of sad, really, because I feel like it is trying to separate us rather than unite us. We are all human, we are all born on a continuum of male/female; your clothes, hair, makeup, mannerisms, etc. do not make you male or female. Your DNA, hormones, gene expression, is unique for each person, but it doesn't make each person a new species. A man with long hair and makeup is not a woman, a woman with short hair and jeans is not a man. They are what they are, and that should be OK. It should be enough. I would prefer just one label, "human."