Over the past few years, we've seen a public dialogue about gender fluidity take place. Most of this conversation has little to do with the everyday experiences of nonbinary people (people who are neither exclusively men nor women) and gender nonconforming people (people who visibly defy society's understanding of what a man or a woman should look like). A lot more airtime is given to other peoples' views of us rather than our own experiences. Our existence is made into a matter of opinion, as if our genders are debatable and not just who we are. In other words, there's been a lot of talk about us but very little engagement with us. This has led to misinformation and outright lies, which have distracted from the realities faced by gender nonconforming people.
-- Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary, p. 13-14
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