There are more than two genders.
For those who have only used the naked eye, it might seem that there are only males and females, sometimes called a binary condition (one or the other). Most people are binary - females are XX, males are XY - that’s just a fact.
But the microscope reveals complexity in chromosome construction. There are more combinations than just XX-XY. That’s also just a fact. When people talk about “identifying” as something other than male or female, they are speaking about more than just emotions or preferences, it’s about genetic structure. Whether the house has indoor plumbing or outdoor plumbing, or both, has nothing to do with the engineering inside the home.
(None of this touches on character. Destroyers and builders, givers and takers, sinners and saints, are made from behavioural ingredients.)
If you’re binary, think about how you are directed by your instincts. The two most powerful forces in the human subconscious can be summarized as the avoidance of death and the having of sex, forces so powerful they can be triggered by a look, a word, just a thought. You didn’t choose to be attracted to men/women, or “feel” male/female, it was a condition of birth. It shapes even our dreams. It is built into us like the spawning beacon of a salmon. Advertisers, religious leaders, corporations, governments, our prom date (or wished), all flow through this binary predominance.
So imagine, based on your own inner engines, that identically concrete forces are at work inside the genetic existence of someone with different chromosome structure. Like yours, those forces aren’t wrong, or even essentially different. They are just unexpected, if you only thought in binary terms.
Now imagine further that all those non-binary forces are constantly criticized, threatened, and all the constructs of society (bathrooms, sports events, television shows, teen clusters along the walls of high school dances, SOGI protesters, etc., etc.) shout at you that you are incredibly wrong. That might crush the will to live, for some non-binary people, or at least impact their pursuit of a free and open life. How could it not?
But non-binary is not wrong, in fact it is naturally inevitable. We binary people now have the tools to understand that. And you know what? It’s fine. No one is hurt by accommodating non-binary existence; many are hurt by obstructing it. It’s so simple, even a child can understand.
The faster we can reshape our society to let people pee in peace (and by pee, I mean all facets of life, in case the metaphor wasn’t plain), the healthier and safer we will all be. Happy, informed, self-actualizing people are better for the economy, if that’s the only reason we need.
And when the protests stop over the simple, harmless facts of gender diversity, the foundations of freedom will be sturdier.
— Black Press