Binary gender regimes maintained themselves with a few rules: everyone must be in a box; there are only two boxes; no one can change boxes; no one is allowed between the boxes. Since no one really fits the perfect masculine or feminine ideals, these rules end up being terribly oppressive to almost everyone, and more so to those who are genderqueer. One can only hope the emergence of a nonbinary movement is the first step in finally retiring it.
-- Riki Wilchins, Nonbinary Memoirs of Gender and Identity, p. xii-xiii
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