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scarp  ·  4654 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Q&A about transgender people, gender identity, and gender expression.
    Take the gender binary, for example; many say that they exist outside it or in between it - this repeats the notion that the gender binary exists in the first place.

I actually don't see the contradiction there. I don't think the trans* community rejects the existence, or at least perceived existence, of the gender binary. It just does not accept it as it is generally posited to exist -- and nor do I. It is simply the acknowledgment that the issue is not black and white, so in that sense the gender binary is subverted.





AnSionnachRua  ·  4654 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Bad example, then.