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I know this helps people because I have acquaintances who have made the woman to non-binary identification switch.

But I don't understand how it helps. I'm not familiar with this comedian, so maybe she plans some form of medical transition. In the cases of the people I know, they did not transition in any way. So all they did was replace their biologically accurate label with a made-up label. At some level, they must know that everyone they interact with will still correctly identify them as women. What has actually changed?

It also does feel like externalising the misogyny as Spikeygrasspod says. Instead of broadening possibilities for women (correctly!), it's narrowing them.