#crushthebinary

Why are shoes gendered? There is no structural difference between a "men's" hiking boots and a "women's" boot. I don't need to be worrying about if I'm "making a statement" about my gender identity whenever I walk to one side of the shoe store or the other.

"But these words, "transgender" and "transitioned" are hard for me because they both have lost their complexity in their assimilation into the mainstream. There is a lack of nuance of time and space. To be transgender is something largely understood as existing within the dogmatic terminus of male or female. And to "transition" imparts a sense of immediacy, a before and after from one terminus to another. But the reality, my reality is that I've been transitioning and will continue to transition all of my life, through the infinite that exists between male and female as it does in the infinite between the binary of zero and one. We need to elevate the dialogue beyond the simplicity of binary. Binary is a false idol." -Lilly Wachowski