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[quote=Anonymous]This is a real question. I have never had same sex attraction, never felt like I should be a man, but also not sure what it means to feel non-binary vs. feeling female.

The jobs I've had most of my adult life are not particularly gendered--for several years I've worked in tech support in a place where it's about 50% male/female, my education was a combination of liberal arts and math, there were not very many women in my department as a math grad student but I never thought of math as a "male" discipline. When I was younger, my jobs included waitressing, working as a caregiver in group homes and nursing homes, driving a grain truck and other farming aspects, working in a mine. When I was young I probably dressed in a more feminine manner than I have for many years (gave up makeup years ago, very rarely use it at all). Never really mastered flirting or what might be regarded as feminine mannerisms in general--girls/women who did always seemed to have some ability or training I missed.

So, reading/listening about people who identify as non-binary, I have to wonder--what exactly does that mean? I don't really feel my experience as "female" in any way that seems very clear to me.

There was an off-topic  thread (not in this forum) re: someone who identifies as non-binary and plans to have breasts removed surgically because of societal response to breasts--not, in the OPs description on that threat, as a body part that felt alien. But I have to think being non-binary is not just about how society responds to oneself.

I was listening to a public radio program involving interviews with people who are non-binary (didn't hear the whole thing, I was driving) and they were talking about how binary genders just didn't fit their lives according to their own experience--so what, exactly, is that experience? How/why is it important to identify specifically as non-binary?

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