Most of us were raised to believe that gender is a dichotomy: male and female. But underneath this foundational "fact" lies a complexity we've been trying to untangle. The modern discourse on transgender people and on gender more broadly has already been elevated beyond duality. But, what is gender? Rather than having an answer for this basic question, we are left with even more questions. What is a man? What is a woman? ... Communities are blossoming around the experience of being something other than man or woman. While still new to many, the rise of nonbinary identities is another step built upon the work and accelerating progress of our LGBTQ predecessors. As gender diversity is increasingly embraced, more people and their allies are emerging and finding one another. They, in turn, extend the fight toward a deeper understanding and acceptance not only of the complexity of gender, but of the complexity of the individual.
-- Micah Rajuvnov and Scott Duane, Nonbinary Memoirs of Gender and Identity, p. xv
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