Continuing the discussion from Hey California, your mates from Oz here:
Coincidence, I think.
Pained though I am (not only am I not binary, I’m probably not even hexadecimal) by many radicals’ callous dismissal of gender issues as “identity politics”, the sinister Powers That Be do seem to have an interest in promoting such issues in a peculiarly divisive manner.
There’s been a terrible example of this in the Stack Exchange network, where I spend a lot of time. You can probably find out all about it by searching for the name “Monica Cellio” (she’s someone who was … er, shafted … by these people), but be warned: there’s a lot of material, and it would probably take a prohibitive amount of work to draw any general political conclusions from it all.
So, although people whose gender doesn’t conform to the simplistic binary norm are indeed regarded as bogey … er, men … this is a traditional persecution, not one likely to be promoted by a sinister neoliberal cabal.
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lol! Touche. Although, I think that in this context a gender reveal party is where excited parents-to-be reveal whether their new baby will be a baby boy or a baby non-boy (something I believe is called a “girl”? 
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From the half-arsed way I currently follow such things, I believe that they are now seen as something of an over the top joke, and good fair game to poke fun at (or blame for a forest fire). Anyway. It only made me pause for a moment when I read the quote about the fires being “blamed on arsonists” and then lo and behold here is a story that exactly matches it. And at the very least (whether it is true or not) is getting a lot of news attention, at the expense of the much more real and serious story of how California has had a record year of bushfires, before the bushfire season has even started…
Onwards, then, to the heady realm of ID pol, I say! Contrapoints - here we come!
Cheers
PP
PS - I know nothing of the Monica Cellio story. I’ll take a look