In the reading beyond the gender binary the narrator is gender non-conforming and is often harassed in public due to legislation at the local, state, and federal levels targeting them. Additionally, the Department of Justice has announced that trans and gender non-conforming workers are not protected by civil rights law. The author argues that being self-reflective and open to transformation is something we should celebrate, not fear, and that society’s inability to place us in boxes makes them uncomfortable. Arguments against gender non-conforming people are about maintaining power and control, and can be grouped into four categories: dismissal, inconvenience, biology, and the slippery slope. People are still upset about the use of a singular pronoun when it’s plural, and the selective outcry over new words to describe gender and sexuality is about prejudice, not principle. Indigenous people and people outside of the Western world have long been outside of the gender binary, and gender diversity is a natural attribute of human expression. Gender non-conforming people face disproportionately high rates of murder, physical violence, job discrimination, homelessness, and health gaps. Tolerance is about maintaining distance, while acceptance is about integrating difference into one’s life. Society presupposes everyone as heterosexual and binary gendered before giving them a chance to come into themselves. Human diversity is constantly being redefined, with definitions of gender, sex, race, and citizenship being used to exclude us. The 2015 US Transgender Survey found that one in ten trans and gender non-conforming people were physically attacked in the past year, and nearly half were survivors of sexual violence. It is time to create new policies and protocols that move beyond the gender binary and prioritize gender non-conforming people.