A story like Nex Benedict's makes you think. It makes you think of all the enben and enbies who are visible and androgynous or neutrally presenting. It makes you think about how they won't ever blend in, and how that makes them a target. It makes you think, what if that's me? It makes you think... they have killed one of us, how many of us have been killed or wrought to die? It makes you think, the account banning of a binary trans woman overshadowed completely the real death of a real enby in the real world. It makes you think, no one called this a crime of exorsexism, but they binarised Benedict and made it a crime of transandrophobia. It makes you think, if it were me, if I were the one that was killed for being non-binary, would they go through such efforts to binarise me when the news got out? Would they make such efforts to find out my assigned sex? Would they make such efforts to overshadow my death, or would it be effortless?
It makes you think, how many were there? How many of us have died like this? And how many were slated as cis, how many as binary trans? How many were completely overshadowed? How many times did people fight to not call it exorsexism? How many visibly GNC nonbinary people are on the scoreboard? How much longer until it's me? How much longer after that until it's not me anymore, it's the binary person they have flattened me into?
