What does it mean to move beyond the gender binary for Alok?

I think what it means to move beyond the gender binary for Alok is that a person should embarrass their self and that what others think about you doesn’t matter but what you think about yourself and how it makes you feel as a person but at the same time it sad that people won’t defend those who look different because they look at them as if there they chose that path they should accept the consequences of their actions and wanted to draw attention to themselves as if they are doing something wrong. He quoted that “I learned about gender through shame. In so many ways, they became inseparable from me. As I grew older, people told me to stop being so feminine and grow up. Gender nonconformity is seen as something immature, something we have to grow out of to become adults. Overnight, so many of the things that I loved not only became associated with femininity but with shame. ” this is sad because even when I am neutral with the gender I do not like people to be treated any differently and should live their life how they want it. 

In what ways does your gender identity go against the binary norm and in what ways does it fit the binary norm?

Gender is a very sensitive topic to me because of my religion and I am scared to offend anyone because of how my religion describes them I was raised in Senegal West Africa 95% Muslim we thought of identifying ourselves based on our sex which was male/female I moved here when I was 16 years old and that’s how I learned that there’s much to gender and that it was not only male/female it was surprising to me, but at the same, I would not say that I feel any type of way regarding people gender because I stay neutral on that topic. I am a straight person and respect anyone who identifies their gender with whatever they want because it’s their life and has the right to feel and do whatever they want as long it is not affecting anyone I don’t think anyone should mind.