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If There Is No Binary, Where Does Gender Exist? LOP096

August 01, 2019

When we understand that the gender binary is a conceptual construct, that it’s not real, that gender is not a physical thing, we can open up into the space or the possibility of understanding that gender is nebulous. Gender doesn’t exist on a straight line, being (only) a man on the one far side and (only) a woman on the other far side. Such a description begs the ontological question: "If man exists on one side and woman on the other, what exists in-between?" What exists within the space between the two polarities? Even that question is problematic, namely, “Why are there polarities in the first place?”