Quote of the Day

"This gender nonbinary and gender-fluid thing is just a new youth Internet fad.  There are only two genders."

While the actual words might be new, living beyond the gender binary is not.  Indigenous people and people outside the Western world have long existed outside of the gender binary: two-spirit among American Indians, hijra in South Asia, waria in Indonesia, muxe in Mexico, just to name a few.  In many of these societies, people living outside of the binary were and continue to be recognized as leaders.  It's not that these people do not exist, it's that they have been erased to make the Western gender binary seem like the only option, and not a particular and specific cultural worldview.  What is regarded as masculine and feminine is not set in stone but actually shifts across time, culture, and space.  Even in the Western world, pink was once considered a masculine color and heels were actually first worn by men!

 -- Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary, p. 39-40