I like that this article bookends with the young person finding that the real cause of their symptoms was isolation from their peers. Not that it’s always the case, but, I hope it’s a common cure that more people seek out first
But who are their peers? Sometimes having a word for how you are can help you find other people you'll vibe with, even if it's technically a misdiagnosis. I've seen it both with neurodivergence and LGBTQ, with kids who arguably don't even fit the label but find and return great value in those communities anyway. I'm sure people here can appreciate how sometimes results matter more than adherence to inflexible rules laid down in some book.
No one is "binary". Even the voltage levels inside electronic circuits, that everyone calls binary, are not binary. What's up with this contemporary obsession for seeing everything in pure black-and-white terms and dismissing the power of the rare, mysterious and unknown liminal states of being, acknowledged since time immemorial by countless traditions?
They observe that in the world around them (media, etc.), “gender A” implies X, Y, and Z traits, and “gender B” implies W, R, and T traits.
The subject does not feel they exhibit exclusively X Y and Z traits nor exclusively W R and T traits, but rather some mixture of the two.
The subject then has two options. Reject the worldview claiming A=>XYZ B=>WRT, in flavor of a more dynamic classification scheme; or introduce a new category, C, which maps to their experienced subset of XYZWRT.
I’ve seen no evidence to support one approach being more valid than the other.