Hello my fluid open wiggly Portland human people. Please lean towards me and hear my plea for more open-mindedness from the people who demand understanding only for themselves but strict guidelines of other? I'm talking about that pesky gender binary and our attempts to open that shit up and make a place where anyone can be. I have sadly been confronted about being too fem to meet a nonbinary standard set by some unknown gender God and in the same breath told I can't be proud to be a women if I'm non binary. Well no folks I can do all this because Non binary is not a third gender, it is the concept that gender does not fit neatly into a male and female binary as there are so many ways to be in between. In our attempts to be more progressive and open minded there was somehow a set of identity rules put in place to exclude and judge other when this is the very thing people are trying to move away from in escaping the binary. Please allow people to be who they are without a long explanation and some sort of street cred, hair cut, meeting the look to be who they are. Stop telling people how to identify and definitely stop expecting everyone to immediately understand your unique perspective without attempting to understand and respect where others are coming from. It's disappointing