Nonbinary people are nonbinary

bigendering:

You have to accept this if you want to be inclusive of nonbinary people.

You can’t just shove nonbinary people back into binary boxes. Nonbinary people who are woman-aligned aren’t “basically women,” and their experiences will still differ from women’s experiences in many ways. There are nonbinary people who aren’t aligned with either binary gender, or are aligned with both, or whose alignment varies depending on the topic. That’s because they’re nonbinary. You can’t reduce nonbinary people back to being binary, that defeats the point.

There are nonbinary people who are both women and men. It’s part of how they’re nonbinary. You can’t tell them to just pick one. Being partially a man doesn’t negate them being female, and being partially a woman doesn’t negate them being male. They’re both.

There are nonbinary people who are partially a binary gender, but not fully. They’re not any more binary than people who are both binary genders. If you want to exclude someone from your women’s space for being partially male, you should apply the same standard to someone who is partially neutrois. They are both equally not-women, and equally women.

It’s not enough to take traditionally binary communities and tack on “oh and nonbinary people can come in too.” You need to think about the implications. And you need to think about it through the lens of nonbinary people being neither men nor women, because that’s what nonbinary means.

1 year ago / 2972 
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