what is non-binary
Non-binary is a gender outside of the gender binary. Agender is having no gender. While some non-binary people are agender and all agender people are non-binary, non-binary can mean full of gender. The most common misconception about what it means to be non-binary is that all non-binary people don’t experience gender. This is false. The first problem is that our perception of gender as a society is girl and boy, woman and man, female and male, feminine and masculine. We assume if someone is neither woman nor man, they must be agender. But we forget; there are so many other ways to experience gender beyond feminine and masculine! Being agender is perfectly valid, but it is not the same thing as being non-binary. Gender Beyond the Binary The experience of a gender that is neither feminine or masculine is the experience of non-binary gender. Contrary to what society tells us, there are so many ways to experience gender, not just two. It can be hard to put into words, as it is more of a fe...