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4. Binary refers to clear and strict gender traits of only male (masculine traits) or female (feminine traits)...
Sat Feb 24, 2024, 09:37 PM
Feb 2024

Binary could be described as either/or -but not both.

Non-binary folks recognize that gender traits are not always strictly masculine or feminine, that some (or most) people have some masculine gender traits and some feminine gender traits, in whatever combination, and that those traits are not concrete but can change for whatever reason (gender-fluid) such as how sometimes a "manly-man" can break down and cry over a sad movie (cheap example, I know).

And by 'traits' I mean whatever identifying characteristics society happens to attribute to males or females at any given time or place, like the wigs, make up, and high heels that identified upperclass men of the 1600s or the willing submissiveness that identified women in the 1950's

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