What Do Non-Binary People Want Analysis

This article “What Do Non-Binary People Want?" By Elliott Jensen is over how non-binary people have no real identification in society. In the beginning Elliott uses an analogy to provide an example of how it may feel to a person of one gender to be the only one in a crowd of the opposite. “Imagine, for a moment, that you’re the only man or woman in a sea of women or men. All day, every day, you interact with people of a different gender from yourself. Additionally, this other gender has filled every magazine, news station, book, movie, TV show, advertisement, and even pornography with images only of themselves. You wake up every morning knowing that you will be different from everyone you come across in your day, barring an unlikely fluke. “They use this analogy to have people attempt to relate and understand the isolation that some non-binary people feel when out around others. They state that this analogy is the way that non-binary people have to live in society. “But for non-binary people, this is life."
Elliott then states that the analogy ends there due to the fact that male and female are the only genders that are recognized to exist by …show more content…
Which is true and the way Elliott decided to phrase this short section shows the determination that non-binary people have to have some form of proper, accurate representation in the media and the acknowledgement from others that they are valid and exist...overall to be considered normal. "Many non-binary people are invested in fashion and styles because working within the confines of the binary system that already exists while attempting to create outside of it is no easy task. Non-binary people have also written stories and non-fiction works and made art in order to fill the dearth of non-binary