My thoughts on the reading, “Beyond the gender Binary” teaches us that you don’t have to understand what it means for someone to be non-binary to respect them. Some people have not  heard a lot about non-binary gender or have trouble understanding them, and that’s okay. You can’t always go by what people want to assume just because you’re confused or don’t consider yourself male or female, you’re fine just being yourself, and don’t let people pull you down. You’re gonna have people judge you for who you are no matter what. You’re not here to please everyone but to show people how you want to be viewed. In the reading alok mentioned “ Everyone thinks that since we “made a choice” to look like that,” we are bringing it upon ourselves”.(pg12). Something about this is people are gonna be this and that the next time. People can be confused and might think they made a choice but really they can change that up. It reminds me of one time when my own cousin was so confused about whether he fell in that category of him being a male and I remember this one time some lady went up to him and asked him why he was dressed up the way he was dressed. Now my cousin was dressed as a woman, he has told me that he liked the style of clothing women had. Having someone that we don’t even know ask that to my cousin in some way made me feel bad for my cousin you have people that you don’t even know what a person is going through and coming at them like that is just disrespectful and that everyone should be respected and not be disrespected just because they are different. It’s about time that people should open their eyes and see that everyone is different and no need to judge someone because what they wear bothers you or maybe you’re curious. Some people just have to accept what people want to wear or what they identify themselves as even if it bothers them.