For many trans people they do get “non-binary” and they are not alone many cis-gender don’t understand transgender let alone “non-binary.”
The California legislature gets it.
When you stop and think, non-binary makes sense. If you think gender as a spectrum with masculinity and femininity, male and female it makes sense that there is something in the middle; androgyny or non-binary.
Through research we have learned that trans women brains closely resembles that of a women’s brain and the same thing for trans men, their brains resemble that of a man, so it is not hard to think that maybe for non-binary people that their brains might not have developed in to either distinct brain pattern.
Nature is amazing; it is always experimenting with new combinations.
The California legislature gets it.
California Just Got One Step Closer To Recognizing A Third GenderHopefully he will sign the bill into law.
“We need to make it easier for transgender and gender non-conforming people to live their lives as who they are,” said the coauthor of the landmark bill, which is headed to the governor's desk.
Buzzfeed
By Jessica Testa
Posted on September 14, 2017
The California legislature passed a bill Thursday that would make the state the first in the US to widely recognize a third, nonbinary gender.
On May 31, the Gender Recognition Act, or Senate Bill 179, passed the California Senate with a 26-12 vote. On Wednesday, more than three months later, it passed the California Assembly with a 57-21 vote. The bill then went back to the Senate for approval of amendments made in the Assembly. On Thursday, SB 179 finally passed the legislature, one day before the deadline for bills to be passed this legislative session.
SB 179 now awaits a decision from Gov. Jerry Brown, who has not yet indicated whether he’ll make it law. As the bill passed the legislature on Thursday, intersex activist Sara Kelly Keenan told BuzzFeed News she’s “guardedly optimistic, because we still need the governor’s signature … until he signs on the dotted line, I’m not doing any jigs.”
When you stop and think, non-binary makes sense. If you think gender as a spectrum with masculinity and femininity, male and female it makes sense that there is something in the middle; androgyny or non-binary.
Through research we have learned that trans women brains closely resembles that of a women’s brain and the same thing for trans men, their brains resemble that of a man, so it is not hard to think that maybe for non-binary people that their brains might not have developed in to either distinct brain pattern.
Nature is amazing; it is always experimenting with new combinations.
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