Pronouns have caused controversy in American society for years now. It is frowned upon to use they/them instead of the traditional she/her or he/him. Accepting genders beyond women and man is moving beyond the gender binary. Alok did a great job at breaking down what it means to move beyond the gender binary. He makes it clear that it doesn’t mean humans can no longer identify as a man or women. It means other genders should be acknowledged and society should consider them a norm. Being non binary supports preserving the human right to be a man or women. I like how Alok mentions how there are an infinite amount of options and we are not limited to the gender binary norm. People mistaken these genders to be something of modern day. Actually, people have been identifying beyond the two genders for centuries. With that being said, why is it still a challenge to be accepted? It takes progression and the understanding that you don’t have to identify with what you were assigned to at birth.  As a cisgender, I have been told countless times to act more like a women. People tend to assign being a woman with being hyper feminine, especially in my culture where infinite options do not exist. As someone who identifies as a women, i believe i fit into the gender binary for the most part. I express myself as compassionate, warm, and kind. Im what a women stereotypically is seen as. What I believe Alok is advocating for is not only the freedom to identify as what you’d like, but to break barriers of how someone should behave. I have gone beyond the gender norms as a women according to society when i came off as masculine or wasn’t gentle enough in the way I spoke. Little things like this are why the stiff interpretation of two genders is toxic. People can not freely express themselves past a women being feminine and a man being masculine. As Alok mentions, putting people in two categories simply doesn’t work. Something I took from his video is the recognition of history. I believe if people would stop blaming the new generations for something that has always existed, people would learn to just accept it. I believe this connects to feminism also, where we are not fighting for dictatorship over men, but equality. Aloks point is we are not fighting to get rid of two genders, but to accept expansion.