bidyke:

hajme:

white nb people have a really fucked up definition of what binarism is lol

binarism is a feature of colonialism and western imperialism in which poc (namely black people) are forced to conform with the white gender binary system

its not the invisibility of nonbinary people in society, thats just called nonbinary erasure (like refusing to use gender neutral pronouns, say stuff like “both genders” etc)

before colonialism came in and enslaved poc, they were already expressing their genders in ways that european white people didnt understand and forced them to identify as either man or woman and entirely erased the genders specific to those cultures, wiping out a large part of individualism and expression in poc societies

More people need to know this

I’d also like to add that there’s a lot of misconception that non-binary people experience forms of oppression specific to them - which, other than erasure, they don’t.

The oppression non-binary people face is the same transphobia and cissexism other trans people face. Any intra-community hostility from other trans people that non-binary people sometimes falsely label as “binarism” is really just a form of horizontal aggression that does not consitute oppression, since “binary trans people” do not hold any institutional power over non-binary people, and they are both oppressed on the same axis.

It is extremely erroneous to assert that people of “binary genders” (both male and female, cis and trans) form any sort of cohesive social class or have any similarities in access to privilege, and that misconception is something that the non-binary community really needs to address and move away from in order to start having any meaningful discourse about where we fit into various privilege and oppression dynamics.

-Lane

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