RE: Assuming a Gender Identity
January 21, 2019 at 3:15 pm
(This post was last modified: January 21, 2019 at 3:17 pm by Acrobat.)
(January 21, 2019 at 2:59 pm)Yonadav Wrote: Why would you use the non-binary card? From what you have said in this discussion, you are not non-binary. If you are going to co-opt a card that isn't your card, you are introducing an insincere element to our attempt to iron out evolving rules about gender spaces.
From what I understand non-binary means that you don’t exclusively identify with the traditional identity markers of either gender, but either neither or some combination of both. With this understanding in mind, I consider myself more non-binary, than someone who might fall into the cisgender male category.
I don’t believe much else is required to identify as non-binary than this, but I’m open to being corrected.
So I don’t think I’m being inauthentic when I say I’m non-binary. But that my issue with not being able to be in the lady’s fitting room, is not because I am non-binary, but because I wanted to help my wife.
The fact that I have to be reduced using to my non-binary status, to get around what I deem as ridiculous prohibitions based on old prejudices and stereotypes, is just the way things are.
