Alok’s Beyond the Gender Binary emphasizes that for Alok, moving beyond the gender binary implies having to coexist in a world as someone who does not fit into the conventional gender binary. Alok delves into various concerns concerning his daily existence as a person who is glad to move beyond the gender binary. One problematic statement Alok addresses that people still believe is, “It’s common sense that everyone is a man or a woman.” The issue with this belief is that it has been regarded as the status quo for so long that, while it is not true, it has been accepted and, as a result, has been the norm for years. However, it appears that we have failed to recognize that prejudice, enslavement, and genocide were the direct result of an opinion that was widely held for a long enough period of time.