[Serious] Please convince me gender is binary

[Jehanne]

I am a transgender female; some of my earliest memories were of wearing make-up, my mom's dresses/skirts, daydreaming of getting married, carrying a baby within me, etc.  (But, of course, I am a biological male.)  And, so, what's the big deal?  What do you and yours expect of me?

There's nothing wrong with any feeling.  Feelings are feelings.  If you don't like the way men are expected to behave, if it doesn't fit you, then I don't see why you should / shouldn't behave in any particular way so long as it doesn't hurt anyone.  As I said before, an individual is worth consideration.  Given a world population of 7 billion, then the several millions of trans or non-binary people, that's actually a lot of people, and they deserve consideration.

But defining a species by rare cases like yours would be like defining it by any other rare difference.  There's no number-of-fingers rainbow: there are people with 10 fingers, and "other."  The others are not wrong to be other, and shouldn't be treated badly for being so, but it's a basic reality that they are a special cases.  It's sad that people are treated badly if they haven't developed normally, but this is what it is-- some people haven't developed normally, and they are treated badly.

This movement to define either sex or gender as non-binary is a lot like defining us as a species with variable numbers of fingers-- it's true that some people don't have 10 fingers, but it's true that we are a 10-finger species.

Then, none of it should matter, right?  And, so, what's the issue?  Discrimination??  Accept trans as being people, and as long as such does not impact our employment in any area of society, then, there is no issue.  As for the "feelings" part, with some trans, at least, their brains are different, and those studies are available online.  Not sure if such is the case with me or not (haven't had a MRI or some other test to see), but, then again, it doesn't really matter too much.