These new attitudes around gender are the logical conclusion of rising individualism in at least two different ways. First, Gen Z’s gender fluidity takes previous decades’ “different is good” and “be who you are” attitudes around race and LGB identification and applies them to gender identity. If people are all unique individuals, then it follows that gender identity is an individual choice—and perhaps people should not be restricted to just two choices. Second, Gen Z’s attitudes put a new twist on the individualism of the post-1960s gender equality revolution, which argued that being male or
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