Before reading ” beyond the gender binary” by Alok void-Menon, I thought I had a good understanding of the difficulties and struggles of gender fluidity, but there is much more to it. This reading was eye-opening and gave you a first-person point of the discrimination they face. Apart from the changes in social events, restaurants, and workplaces, acknowledgment is huge. Alok spoke about not having the luxury of being instead of being seen as just pretending or acting. Their gender is nothing more than just something they can take off. this is something that I didn’t think about before. I knew that people could discriminate and treat others unfairly. Still, society acts as if their choice is nothing more than makeup they can take off. doing this takes away the seriousness of the matter and pushes us away from accepting change. While reading, I’ve also learned that” changes ” also play a big factor in accepting gender fluidity. Alok talks about how discrimination against gender non-conforming people happens because the system rewards conformity and not creativity. Society fears most is chance, when people step up and try to do anything that isn’t the norm. When speaking about how to change and what is considered the norm, Alok gives multiple examples of how society tries to downplay the lack of acceptance and transform today’s world. Examples include dismissal and saying that it’s common sense that there are only two genders. Inconvenience, rather than trying to understand, people will just try to tolerate it. Biology, whatever science says, is correct and is the answer to everything. Finally, the slippery slope, that is, gender fluidity, becomes the norm, which will lead to only bad results. After reading through the book, I’ve learned more about the hardships that gender non-conforming community goes through and the reasons why people discriminate, along with my understanding of the topic