@RickiTarr I've been thinking about this person's stunted worldview.
They think they are simplifying reality by organizing their world into (absurdly large) categories, but all they're really doing is hemming themselves inside an increasingly shrinking and inescapable space. The only way out, is to bust through each of the stereotype monoliths they've constructed.
It isn't "protection" from a dynamic, diverse, nonbinary world. Rather, it is a prison of their own making.
RickiTarr