#nonbinary stereotypes

It's one thing if there's literally no humans in your setting at all. In which case you can do whatever the hell you want. Go make that wolf nonbinary.

But if your setting does have humans? Especially if your setting is dominated by humans? And the only nonbinary characters that we get to see, who actually matter to the story, are all nonhuman animals, robots, aliens, or shapeshifters?

You're literally just perpetuating biological essentialism and saying that you think it's impossible for a real human person to be nonbinary.

Real human nonbinary people are not aliens or animals or shapeshifters. And guess what. They're literally still nonbinary. They have real human genitals and guess what. They're still nonbinary.

Stop praising biological essentialism as the epitome of nonbinary representation when it's literally just saying that real human people can't be nonbinary because they're not literal shapeshifters.

You can have nonbinary nonhumans. But if there are humans in the setting you literally fucking must also have nonbinary humans unless you just want to advertise to everyone that you're exorsexist as fuck.

This is not representation. It's literally just bigotry. And everyone needs to stop cheering for it like it's the most amazing thing ever.

[Image description start: Black text reading, "'Are you a boy, or a girl?'" in a pixely font like from the original Pokemon games. Below this are two sections. One is labeled, "Positive representation", and shows a stick figure smiling and responding, "I'm a shark!". The second section is labeled, "Literally just biological essentialism masquerading as progressiveness:", and shows a shark sticking its head out of the water to reply, "I'm a shark!". Below this split is more text that reads: "If the only nonbinary characters in your setting are nonhuman (including shapeshifters), that's biological essentialism! and that's called bigotry babey! Yes, even if you're also nonbinary!". The words, "even if you're also nonbinary" are italicized for emphasis. End ID.]

Fuck biological essentialism.

It's 2023. If you aren't willing to write main, important human nonbinary characters in a fantasy or scifi setting where humans exist, especially if humans dominate the setting, you're an exorsexist piece of shit, and you should feel bad about it.

[ID: The "Okay, but that's worse" meme from The Good Place, edited so that Eleanor is now saying:

"Everything a nonbinary person wears is inherently a fashion statement and inherently outstanding because being nonbinary makes you weird and quirky.".

Chidi responds, "Okay but that's exorsexist. You do get how that's exorsexist, right?" While Eleanor frowns, trying to figure it out.

Society if, if Martha Wells writes any more Murderbot books, she retroactively fixes a major source of the exorsexism in The Murderbot Diaries by revealing that Murderbot is literally trans and was assigned a different gender and pronouns upon construction, but literally hacked the system to overwrite its gender and pronoun assignments to be "indeterminate" and "it/its" and that, literally as a blatantly observable fact of capitalism that she can and should play off, any employees who did notice just literally did not get paid enough to care enough point it out to any superiors or give a single shit.

Society if Martha Wells introduces more bot and construct character who are binary trans or genderfluid or not literally /just/ agender.

Society if Martha Wells has one of the main reocurring humans characters come out as nonbinary to solidify the fact that literally anyone can be nonbinary and you can figure this out at literally any age or stage of your life, rather than just being something that only robots or aliens can be:

Murderbot being nonbinary specifically because it's a cyborg that doesn't have genitals, and there being zero nonbinary humans who are actual characters, and zero cyborgs or robots who are not genderless is literally just "what genitals you have determines your gender" aka transmisia.