Beyond the Gender Binary

by Alok Vaid-Menon

We deserve more options. This false choice of boy or girl, man or woman, male or female is not natural—it is political. 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. Gender diversity is an integral part of our existence. It always has been, and it always will be.