Alok’s book “Beyond the Gender Binary” talks about confrontation acceptance and educating others about one’s experience living in a world where people’s opinions can really have an effect on one way of living.3 concepts that helped me understand the view on gender and Alok’s perspective on the gender binary are talking about acceptance and Alok’s past dealing with bullies and people who tried bringing Alok down for being themselves as a non-conforming gender. In the book it states “You want to be different to draw attention to yourselves. Hurt feelings aren’t real discrimination.” (Page 41)This was sad to read that there are people in this world that actually think like this. Because this leads to non-conforming people having a lot of negativities in their life like being unemployed by the mistreatment they get or feeling useless or not heard enough by others for not accepting them for who they are. Furthermore, he states how 40 percent of trans and gender non-conforming people have attempted suicide because of emotional and physical violence. Alok speaks about not only this conception which was very sad to read about but also how to be acceptable to people beyond the gender binary roles. Alok talks about the difference between tolerance and Acceptance within gender in this case non-conforming people. To exemplify,” Tolerance is always about maintaining distance: “This is about something over there that docent concern me.”Acceptance, on the other hand, is about integrating differences into your own life:” This is something that I am part of and I need to learn more to better help”(page 43). This and confrontation are two other aspects Alok tries to present in the book like when Alok talks about a childhood bully who ended up confronting Alok again and apologizing for being introduced to homophobia at a young age instead of accepting others. I genuinely felt this book intriguing in ways that I also was being educated on how non-conforming people like Alok lives in this world and grow up as they are.