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There is a tiny gender critical community on there, but the algorithm will still feed troon degeneracy because disliked content gets engagement.
Obviously not who you asked and he/she/anyone else should feel free to respond, too, of course, but I used to identify as "non-binary" and was lost in the TRA sauce for years, so I have some thoughts. Someone who identifies as "non-binary" (or the cringe phonetic spelling "enby") is said to not identify with what they view as the societal gender binary of man and woman. There are three main issues that I've identified with this ideology, in my experience:
1. It's sexist: the concept that one cannot be a man or woman and engage in traditionally feminine or masculine things, respectively, is sexist. It's similar to the logic that TiM/Fs and TRAs use, only less committal than the former. "I'm AFAB/AMAB (even though my sex was fully developed before I was born), but I don't like [insert hyper masculine/hyperfeminine stereotype here]. I don't want to transition, but I want the asspats for being queer anyways." Where faced with the same situation, a man or woman might have an opportunity- conscious or otherwise- to liberate their brothers and sisters from harmful stereotypes, the non binary ideologue reinforces them.
2. The third gender: Many non-binary ideologues claim to be such out of a secondary desire to destroy the current gender binary in western society. Unfortunately for them they are failing in several ways. The first is what has been observed as the creation of a "third gender". Many non-binary identified people view gender as a "spectrum", however, if you have ever witnessed statistically significant amounts of NB identified individuals, you will begin to notice patterns in appearance and behavior (we all know the ones). Gender (NOT biological sex), consists of the same elements. This has led some to believe that, rather than NB individuals comprising random points on a spectrum, there has instead been the creation of the third gender, "enby", to accommodate those who do not wish to identify as man or woman.
3. It reinforces the gender binary: finally, the second way in which non-binary ideologues are failing to destroy the gender binary and my final issue with non-binary ideology is the fact that by identifying as non binary one is necessarily and inherently reinforcing the gender binary itself. I'll use an example to illustrate my point: let's say there is a man who likes to engage in traditionally feminine activities or appearance, so he decides to identify as non-binary: "I like to paint my nails, but men don't paint their nails, so I must not be a man." In doing so, he is implicitly and irrevocably reinforcing the gender binary (male=masculine, female=feminine) that queer gender ideology is so strongly against. This is the most ironic failure of nonbinarism.
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