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You Do You, Boo
It’s time to stop tolerating and start accepting many of our differences.
This is an uncomfortable truth: I do not truly understand how people identify as nonbinary.
I have multiple friends who identify as gender nonbinary, or enby. Though they appear to me to have a specific sex — the gender they identify themselves with is not that binary.
The two or three friends who identify as the gender opposite their birth I get. Some born male are female and vice versa. But enby? I can’t quite get that.
But you know what? That doesn’t matter. Do you know why? Because how you or anyone else gender identifies themselves has ZERO impact on MY life.
What does that mean? That means that what is right for you is right for you and I don’t need to understand it. HOWEVER, out of respect for you — I will do my best to use the appropriate gender pronouns you prefer.
Here’s the thing — lots of people get utterly bent out of shape over the choices people make. Choices that, when all is said and done, impact ONLY those making them. That’s not a statement of negativity — it’s the truth.
I identify as a cis-gendered male. More than one of my friends was born male but identifies as female. Likewise, several friends identify as enby. Does any…
