gender binary

As the Trump era dawned, Daum found herself increasingly frustrated by fourth-wave feminism, which she described in 2019 as “the hashtag, the eye-rolling GIF, and, more seriously, the beginnings of questioning the whole idea of a gender binary.”

It was something far more radical, these leaders felt, to ask the public to rethink the gender binary and stability of sex and sexual attraction entirely, which the very existence of bisexual, and especially transgender, people tends to do.

In our latest investigative series in "The Anti-Trans Hate Machine," we dug deep into the obsession of paramilitary groups with trans people and enforcing the gender binary and the way in which they were using that in order to recruit and keep themselves alive during the Biden administration, and then to make common cause with local Republican politicians, to strengthen their bonds.

Meanwhile, the label “nonbinary” is often used by those “who do not subscribe to the gender binary,” according to the organization’s glossary.

"And certainly in the circles that I've been in... there is more acceptance and openness, and people are more comfortable expressing themselves in things outside the gender binary."