SleepyCatten<p>Whenever anyone describes gender as a spectrum, or suggests that non-binary exists somewhere "in-between" between man and woman, we think of this video by non-binary trans fem content creator, author, and influencer Elle Deran :NonBinaryHeart: </p><p><a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@elle.deran/video/7443177846874328362" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">tiktok.com/@elle.deran/video/7</span><span class="invisible">443177846874328362</span></a></p><p>The transcript is as follows:</p><blockquote><p>So gender isn't binary?<br>It's not.<br>It's a spectrum.<br>Not really.<br>Wait, I'm confused. I was taught that there was man and woman, and non-binary people fall somewhere in-between.<br>Well, you see how a spectrum still has two ends? So seeing gender in this linear fashion relies on binary thinking and positions man and woman as these sort of opposing opposites. Which they're not.<br>Well, then how am I supposed to see it?<br>Think of it like this. We culturally see the sun and the moon as these opposite entities, representing the light in the dark. And when we look at the sky, they might be all we can see. But the truth is that there are billions of other stars and moons in the universe. Our sun and moon aren't opposing opposite. They exist together at all times, along with billions and billions of planets and galaxies and other universal entities, all of which have overlapping similarities and differences. And as we evolve as humans, we learn more and more about the universe. So when we discover a new planet, we didn't just make it up. It didn't just come out of thin air or thin space.<br>Nah, haha.<br>It has been there all along. We have only brought it to light.<br>Right.<br>There are infinite ways to be a moon, infinite ways to be a star. And there is so much more to our universe than what we can see in the sky. There are infinite ways to be a woman, to be a man. To be non binary. Infinite ways to be a human. And at the end of the day, we are all just different expressions made up of the same stardust. So, you see, gender isn't binary. It's infinite.<br>Cool.<br>Yeah.</p></blockquote><p>Thought some of y'all might find this interesting, whatever form your own gender has taken from the stardust 🫶🏻</p><p><a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/ElleDeran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElleDeran</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trans</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>transgender</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/enby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>enby</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/NonBinary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NonBinary</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/TransFem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TransFem</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/WeAreAllJustDifferentExpressionsOfTheSameStardust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WeAreAllJustDifferentExpressionsOfTheSameStardust</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/SoGenderIsntBinary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SoGenderIsntBinary</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>transition</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>queer</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a>+ <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/LGBTQIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQIA</span></a>+</p>