Virginia Students walkout - Trans policies

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Based on what you're saying it's obvious to me that I've looked into this more extensively than you have. For instance Facebook has 58 gender options.

Cis male, cis man, cisgender male, cisgender man

Male to female, MTF, trans female, trans* female, trans woman, trans* woman, transfeminine, transgender female, transgender woman, transsexual female, transsexual woman

Cis, cisgender, trans, trans*, trans person, trans* person, transgender, transgender person, transsexual, transsexual person

Androgyne, androgynous, gender non-conforming, non-binary, gender variant, genderqueer, other

Bigender, gender fluid, pangender

Agender, neither, neutrois

Two-Spirit

Intersex

Gender questioning

Facebook has 58 gender options, but most of them are different words for the same thing.

Here are the four options which mean "cis man":

There are then these eleven options for "trans woman":

(I trust the reader to extrapolate to the options for "cis woman" and "trans man")
That's 30 of the "58", just for four options.
There are then ten more options which mark cis/trans without marking man/woman:

These aren't "different genders", they're different ways of describing a gender. It's the equivalent of "autism", "autistic", "Autism Spectrum Disorder", "ASD", "person with autism", "on the spectrum", and so forth. You wouldn't say that someone who says they are autistic and someone who says they are on the spectrum have different conditions.

So that's 40 out of the 58 out the way and we haven't advanced beyond cis/trans man/woman.

There are then a number of markers for "non-binary" in a generic sense:

There's then a number that seem to me to be "multiple genders".

Then there's a number which mean "no gender":

One Native American identity:

One that is a sex:

And one which seems to be "I don't know":

Is there a slight variation between some of those terms? Probably. "Androgynous" means something different to "genderqueer". But I think "58 genders" insinuates that Facebook is doing something it isn't. There is no remotely mainstream drive to teach about xenogenders, or any attempt to differentiate between neopronouns for anything other than aesthetics (again, like ASD/autism/autistic spectrum condition/PDD-NOS/whatever). The Facebook list, and the only things anyone will ever encounter unless they active look for them, is cis/trans man/woman, non-binary, agender, multigender, intersex, and then Two Spirit is the only specific identity that doesn't fit within those terms. Realistically that's at most nine genders, eight of which are easy to understand if you're familiar with the binary model.

Of course in reality there are as many genders as there are people. But when it comes to categorising gender, you can capture almost everyone with a small number of categories that only require reference to two genders.

Put it this way. Imagine someone hands you a box and says all items in the box are either red or violet. You look in the box, and 90% of items are red or violet. But some are both red and violet. Some are green, which is between red and violet. Some are completely transparent and lack any colour at all. And in fact, when you look closely, some of the red things are scarlet, some are crimson, some are maroon, some are magenta, some are pink. Some of the violet things could be called mauve or purple or indigo. What's your response? "That's too many colours, it doesn't seem realistic"?