Feminism as a word from the Latin fēminīnus meaning woman. I think that this is one of the simple reasons that people choose not to identify using feminism; Feminism, despite claiming the definition of "activists for gender equality," does in its very root etymology, neglect men, and people of non-binary gender. Even the feminist symbol does not include the symbol for men or people of non-binary gender.
This is the feminist symbol
And this is a symbol the represents all genders
Additionally, many people who identify as feminist present society is such a way that dichotomizes gender - this often takes the form of "men do this and that to women" and sometimes includes "women do this and that to men." Quite apart from its truth value, we can see that it neglects to discuss the issues of non-binary genders. Many feminists, I am sure, recognize that non-binary gender people exist, but I seldom see any who constantly include those individuals in part of their world view. Many feminists use exclusively 'she' in their writings. which certainly works for enacting revenge for the years of male-specific language, but does little to solve gender equality problems when it outright neglects non-binary people.
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