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When we are surrounded by such diversity - in nature, in culture, in human spirit - how can we stand not to acknowledge it?
By claiming that our words are too hard to understand, the media perpetuates the idea that WE are too hard to understand, and suggests that there's no point in trying.
What I am sure of, though, is that accepting people outside the gender binary has less to do with the idea of specific non-binary genders, and a lot more to do with working away from the binary thinking in general. That we get better at seeing beyond us and them, valid and invalid, natural and unnatural, good and bad, and instead communicate the fullness of who we are to each other, respectfully, with compassion.
Even when we are confused about someone's gender, and don't have a greater awareness of what it means to be trans, we have a choice to respond with kindness rather than cruelty.
Part of being trans, of being queer - not all of it, not for all people, but part - is in the re-imagining of what it is to be human. These are categories forged from the failure or refusal to acquiesce to majority rule.
Some critics of trans people have told us that we shouldn't feel this pain of being denied the legitimacy of our own selves; gender is, of course, just a social construct. I wonder if these people also tell widows not to bother grieving their husbands, because marriage is also just another social construct.
We assume that anything that is new to us is new to human society as a whole, and that if we don't see it reflected in history textbooks and in recent memory then it cannot have existed for long.
