IMANE CHAABA READING REFLECTION 2

In Alok Vaid-Menon’s book “Beyond The Gender Binary”, there is a clear message for all the families, parents, and people, in general, to stop judging, bullying, disrespecting and discriminating against non-binary people. People should believe that these people exist in life. The difference between them and other people is that their emotions are different. That doesn’t make them bad or crazy, but it’s just their personal preference. For Alok, non-binary people has been existing years and years ago, but people were too afraid to stay true to themselves. It was too hard to accept the idea that there are people who are neither a woman or men. Nonbinary people get a lot of judgments because of them being insecure about their identities. But recently, things changed with social media, movies, and books where people finally feel free to express their true feelings. There are a lot of arguments against non-conforming people that are well forced such as calling them not normal or people who are just looking for attention. While in the other hand, non-binary people are looking for acceptance. They want to be respected and accepted by society. Biology is another argument that people talk about when they want to justify their opinions. I am honestly one of them, but I try my best to think emotionally and to try to understand how they feel and think instead of thinking just about science. This chapter of Alok’s book was very interesting to read and an eye-opener to this subject.