I feel that for Alok and for everyone to go beyond the gender binary, it is to be able to be free, without anyone going on the street criticizing why they are like that or why they dress in a certain way, it is the power to be able to represent themselves. As Alok said, there are only pronouns that are for women, for men and for everyone in general, but there is not a pronoun for each different identity category. So looking at it in a deeper way, this should not be right, since even though it is now in the actuality that I have been seeing how they are focusing on showing a little more support towards anyone with a different identity category. It’s hard for me, and it makes me feel sad that there have always been people who didn’t feel good about themselves, who wanted to be able to explore who they were and feel free. But there wasn’t as much gender expression for them to show off and the people who did it just categorized him as confused or annoyed him in the process. Like what Alok narrated, about how he had always shown his true self and they bothered him for this simple fact, but then the bully contacts him and talks about how he bothered him because he felt repressed and was envious of how Alok could show himself without fear.

My gender identity, I feel that what went against the binary norm would be that sometimes my way of acting was different. I come from growing up with 2 older brothers, for that to feel included towards them I got “masculine” tastes (as classified by society). Since I was little, I liked to play soccer, basketball and even fights with my brothers, my parents did not bother that, rather they tried to join in playing with us too. But when I went to school or told someone else, they told me that those games are not right for a girl like me or they were just surprised that I played those things. Even at this age, I like to play “masculine” video games that in their time many people said things like “Why do you play that if you’re a woman” or “you shouldn’t do that”, but those are and were my tastes. Meanwhile, they fit to the binary norm maybe would be Even when I did those things, I liked and like to dress in a “feminine” way or something like that, in addition to the fact that I feel good with my self and with my gender identity. I know that my experiences have not been like others or are not as strong as others, but it is something that when I grew up, they were a not a good experience in their time, now there is a little more acceptance or even people no longer bother that one girl do “boy” things. I feel that it is good to be able to show who we are, what we like and even how we feel so that we can be part of supporting anyone who does not feel good about their gender identity.