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document updated 13 years ago, on Jul 6, 2011
For some reason, one of the hardest things for people to understand is the non-binary thing. It's not trans issues — no, they get that, at least a little bit, since that's depicted (however badly) in movies/TV.

And it's not just cisgender folks who have this issue. I find myself inappropriately gendering my genderqueer friends far too often, and I KNOW just how important using someone's preferred pronoun is. Unfortunately I start to see binary people as "normal", no matter how hard I try, because there are practically no counterexamples in day-to-day life. The driving force behind the lack of counterexamples is that everyone is so heavily and so constantly gender policed.

But it's also partly because it's a self-reinforcing cycle. People see that counterexamples don't exist, so people don't let themselves come out and be those counterexamples, so the stigma continues. Well, let's get the ball rolling — here are some counterexamples.

(okay, there's a lot more transmasculine pictures there than transfeminine — I have a lot of internalized transmisogyny too :( )