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Although the gender binary system is coercive and limiting, the [[binary genders]] themselves are valid identities. | Although the gender binary system is coercive and limiting, the [[binary genders]] themselves are valid identities. | ||
Gender binarism has also been described by the term '''bigenderism'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ifge.org/?q=node/147|work=The International Foundation for Gender Education|title=Bigenderism|author=Miqqi Alicia Gilbert|year=2003}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|chapter=Getting to a Utopian World Beyond Gender|title=Where the Millennials Will Take Us: A New Generation Wrestles with the Gender Structure|last=Risman|first=Barbara J.|year=2018}}</ref>, which should not be confused with the [[bigender]] identity. | Gender binarism has also been described by the term '''bigenderism'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ifge.org/?q=node/147|work=The International Foundation for Gender Education|title=Bigenderism|author=Miqqi Alicia Gilbert|year=2003|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210223225332/http://www.ifge.org/?q=node/147|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|chapter=Getting to a Utopian World Beyond Gender|title=Where the Millennials Will Take Us: A New Generation Wrestles with the Gender Structure|last=Risman|first=Barbara J.|year=2018}}</ref>, which should not be confused with the [[bigender]] identity. | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
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==Supporting Arguments and their Counter-Arguments== | ==Supporting Arguments and their Counter-Arguments== | ||
One of the main arguments for the gender binary is the fact that someone who fits inside the binary system can have a gender expression or personality which differs from the Western<ref>European and North American</ref> binary system.<ref>A somewhat misinformed argument arguing this: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/sep/16/drop-gender-stereotypes-we-are-all-non-binary</ref> This argument is misinformed, since it is based on the single-cultural assumption that gender identity is the same thing as personality. For example, if two people identifying with the same [[binary gender]] who both lived in cultures with gender stereotypes completely alien from each other met, they would both still want to be known as their real [[Gender identity|gender identities]], not something culturally assumed from behaviour and expression. | One of the main arguments for the gender binary is the fact that someone who fits inside the binary system can have a gender expression or personality which differs from the Western<ref>European and North American</ref> binary system.<ref>A somewhat misinformed argument arguing this: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/sep/16/drop-gender-stereotypes-we-are-all-non-binary [https://web.archive.org/web/20230604004030/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/sep/16/drop-gender-stereotypes-we-are-all-non-binary Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> This argument is misinformed, since it is based on the single-cultural assumption that gender identity is the same thing as personality. For example, if two people identifying with the same [[binary gender]] who both lived in cultures with gender stereotypes completely alien from each other met, they would both still want to be known as their real [[Gender identity|gender identities]], not something culturally assumed from behaviour and expression. | ||
==Binary genders== | ==Binary genders== | ||