The answer is very simple. There are as many genders as there are boxes on the form to check. Inventing a new box does not change the nature of reality. Gender is what is socially recognized as such in any given social context.
If you think having more boxes to check is better, it might turn out that after a certain point having a lot is not so great after all. The binary tends to slip back in anyway, because gender is a way of socially acknowledging something that is rather binary in the first place. Even the non-binary ends up recognizing their binary, because we don't talk about non-binary rocks.
I have no problem with social construction of reality... but then it ends up being biologically essentialist in the most naive sense.
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