Beyond the Gender Binary

by Alok Vaid-Menon

The real crisis is not that gender non-conforming people exist, it’s that we have been taught to believe in only two genders in the first place.

But maybe we aren’t the problem; maybe the whole gender system is. Whose definitions are we prioritizing, anyway?

The gender binary is like a party guest who shows up before you get the chance to set the table.

Gender diversity is a natural attribute of human expression, not an illness that needs to be fixed.