What it means to move beyond the gender binary for alok is to see beyond a person’s gender or what you can see. What really matters is what’s inside and how that person feels and how they show that or exprice this in their life in general. To move beyond the gender binary is to see what’s inside of a person like their feeling, the way their mind works and thinks but also how they want to be addressed or seen by the people around them in which they feel comfortable in their own skin.

 I am a straight male and I identify as a man and that’s how I feel inside. I feel comfortable being a straight male because I do believe that people should see others past just two genders but for what and how that person feels or identifies inside. This to me is all that matters as a human is to understand each other. I respect anyone and everyone if you come up to me and say you identify as a woman, that’s fine because if that’s how you feel inside and that’s how you feel comfortable then express that. If everyone learns to respect each other and are able to feel comfortable around people who represent how they feel inside this one step into making this world a better place for everyone. There’s no reason why some people should be scared to go to certain places or do certain things because of how other people would react by using hate speech or physical violence even just looking at people a certain way and that’s just disgusting that some people would treat other people so horrible for expressing how they feel inside.