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I've definitely used vector space to conceptualize my gender identity before, but definitely 3 axes is too limiting. There's a difference between the presence/lack of genders and the "method" in which they are experienced, after all. A binary woman and a genderfluid person who is currently a woman have the same (current) gender, but their fluidity is obviously different.
For me, personally, I would need at least two additional axes for genders; I'm bigender, but neither of them are man or woman, so your scale would look like (0,0,1) for me, which would match a mostly-agender person which I'm definitely not. Other people would probably want an axis for gender intensity i.e. how much presence of a gender one experiences. Some people feel their gender very strongly while for others it's just sorta there in the background. Some people would definitely want to use negative numbers.Then there are all the people who describe their gender as "orbiting" or "parallel to" a binary gender, introducing the possibility of using vectors to describe gender rather than points in space...
I'd probably describe myself as (0,0,1,5,6), where the 4th axis is juxera and the 5th axis is mavrique. I have felt gender fluidity in the past but it's been pretty solid for a few years now.