I think the thing other people are parsing as 'gender' isn't 'gender' to me. I talked with a nonbinary friend recently who described their nonbinaryness as sort of... not wanting to be misunderstood as having female traits. This is valid! This also is completely different from-
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Then that communicates to me - this is someone who is treated by society as the female role, because they have a vagina and look female. They also feel there's aspects of femininity that don't apply to them, and want to be clear to others that they're not a typical woman.
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One half of one percent are truly non binary. Its psychological. Why the big deal. Its generally a binary question answered by looking in your diaper.
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You can break it down into gender identity and gender expression, wouldn't that make it easier?
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Ooh I think so. So it would be, traditional gender (what you read as) is your gender identity, and your gender expression is if you tell people you're nonbinary?
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