Alok expresses that moving beyond gender binary means removing gendered boundaries that are societal traditions. Evolving beyond the two distinct genders forms, feminine and masculine that were prioritized and fixed in our social system or cultural beliefs. Alok believes that humans should be able to “play” with gender and to be creative and change as much as they want. Alok shares with us that gender norms tell us who to be rather than who we choose to be. Throughout this reading Alok stands firm on his belief that people should have a choice/right on who they want to be and because they are many that go against non-binary, gender non-conforming people and transgender it makes the world scarier for them. He also shared through the reading that gender norms have an impacted his physical and emotional safety tremendously as people sometime harass him. This has affected him previously were he had to make a choice between his safety or authenticity. Due to safety issue many genders non- conforming people must cover up who they are because of the back lash they can receive. One thing I appreciated that he said is that he does not want to get exist he needs to live and in doing so he needs to be authentic and live his truth. The society we live in today believes that one should be punished for non-conforming to get back in place with these policies. This short story speaks about injustice, pain, sacrifice, and back lash in the non- conforming society however, it also speaks about hope, resistance, authenticity, and transformation outside of gender binary. My gender identity fit into the binary norms. I identity as cis gender because my gender identity matches my biological sex that I was assigned at birth. However, I believe in being creative, transformative, and authentic and educating myself with non- conforming people. The world is slowly changing but once there is hope anything is possible.