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When someone says #IAmNonbinary, your gut intuitive process registers this primarily as: A) A desire to signal that they have traits/preferences atypical for their birth sex ('man likes skirts') B) They are neither male nor female C) This is a symptom of trauma or mental illness

A
40.3%
B
25.1%
C
34.6%

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I mean I guess you think it's obviously B but among my followers this view is the minority

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In a sense, this says less about the term non-binary than it does about your audience's level of familiarity with and insight into the non-binary experience. That is, outside of their intuition and surface level appraisal of an unusual and strange-seeming phenomenon.

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I can’t speak for others directly, but my experience in this audience of respondents leads me to believe this is far from the case. Many who follow Aella are unlikely to be unfamiliar with post-LGBTQ gender. The likelihood is that they (and I) are highly critical of the ideology.

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I'd try to do a poll to figure this out but I'm not sure what to ask to test familiarity with LGBTQ stuff.

4:13 AM · Jan 11, 2020

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My best suggestion is to ask whether your audience has had a lengthy discussion on non-binary/alternative genders with someone who identifies as such face to face (separate poll for lengthy online discussions). At least for 30 minutes of discussion or more. That’s my take.