The Sex Binary Is Just as Harmful as the Gender Binary

Illustration by Alex Yoon

Some of our general views of sex and gender have broken a bit from what they used to be. More people now see gender as malleable, where individuals’ genders can change from what doctors have assigned them at birth. The phrase “gender is a spectrum” (which I don’t particularly care for as a nonbinary person, but that’s neither here nor there) has spread considerably.