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The '''gender binary''' (also known as '''gender binarism''')<ref name="Garber1997">{{cite book |author=Marjorie Garber |title=Vested Interests: Cross-dressing and Cultural Anxiety |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rCzYJisHWHAC |access-date=18 September 2012 |date=25 November 1997 |publisher=Psychology Press |isbn=978-0-415-91951-7 |pages=2, 10, 14–16, 47}}</ref><ref name="Card1994">{{cite book |author=Claudia Card |title=Adventures in Lesbian Philosophy |url=https://archive.org/details/adventuresinlesb00card |url-access=registration |access-date=18 September 2012 |year=1994 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=978-0-253-20899-6 |page=the [https://archive.org/details/adventuresinlesb00card/page/127 127]}}</ref><ref name="Rosenblum2000">{{cite journal |author=Rosenblum, Darren |year=2000 |title='Trapped' in Sing-Sing: Transgendered Prisoners Caught in the Gender Binarism |journal=Michigan Journal of Gender & Law |volume=6 |ssrn=897562}}</ref> isrefers to the classification of gender into two distinct forms: of [[masculine]] and [[feminine]],. This classification can whetheroccur bythrough [[social system]]systems, [[Culture|cultural]] [[belief]]beliefs, or both simultaneously.{{efn-ua |In this context the word "binary" often functions as a [[noun]], unlike several [[Binary (disambiguation)|other usescombination of the word]], where it is an [[adjective]]both.}} Most cultures useadopt a genderthis binary approach, havingrecognizing only two genders: ([[boys]]/[[men]] and [[girls]]/[[women]]).<ref name="Nadal-re-binary">Kevin L. Nadal, ''The SAGE Encyclopedia of Psychology and Gender'' (2017, {{ISBN|978-1-4833-8427-6}}), page 401: "Most cultures currently construct their societies based on the understanding of gender binary—the two gender categorizations (male and female). Such societies divide their population based on biological sex assigned to individuals at birth to begin the process of gender socialization."</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Sigelman |first1=Carol K. |last2=Rider |first2=Elizabeth A. |title=Life-Span Human Development |date=14 March 2017 |publisher=Cengage Learning |isbn=978-1-337-51606-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M2M1DgAAQBAJ&pg=PA385 |access-date=4 August 2021 |language=en |page=385}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Maddux |first1=James E. |last2=Winstead |first2=Barbara A. |title=Psychopathology: Foundations for a Contemporary Understanding |date=11 July 2019 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-429-64787-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q-ChDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT1028 |access-date=4 August 2021 |language=en}}</ref>

InWithin this binary modelframework, a person's ''[[gender]]'' and ''[[sexuality]]'' may be assumed by default to align with one's [[sex assigned at birth]]. This mayassumption includeextends certainto expectationsvarious ofsocietal howexpectations oneregarding dresses themselvesappearance, one's behavior, [[sexual orientation]], names or, pronouns, which restroom one usesuse, and other qualitiesmore. For example, when a male assigned at birth is born,expected genderto binarismexhibit maymasculine assumetraits thatand thebehaviors maleand willto be masculineheterosexual, intypically appearance,attracted haveto masculinefemales. characterThese traitsrigid expectations can perpetuate negative attitudes, biases, and behaviorsdiscrimination against those who express gender variance, asnonconformity, wellor aswhose havinggender aidentity [[heterosexual]]does attractionnot toalign femaleswith their birth sex.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Keating |first1=Anne |title=glbtq >> literature >> Gender |url=http://www.glbtq.com/literature/gender.html |website=www.glbtq.com |publisher=glbtq: An Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Culture |access-date=2 April 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403155153/http://www.glbtq.com/literature/gender.html |archive-date=3 April 2015}}</ref> These expectations may reinforce negative [[Attitude (psychology)|attitudes]], [[bias]]es, and [[discrimination]] towards people who display [[Gender expression|expressions]] of [[Gender variance|gender variance or nonconformity]] or those whose [[gender identity]] is incongruent with their birth sex.<ref name="Hill-2015">{{Cite journal |last1=Hill |first1=Darryl B. |last2=Willoughby |first2=Brian L. B. |date=October 2015 |title=The Development and Validation of the Genderism and Transphobia Scale |journal=Sex Roles |volume=53 |issue=7–8 |pages=531–544 |doi=10.1007/s11199-005-7140-x |s2cid=143438444 |issn=0360-0025}}</ref>

Discrimination against transgender or gender nonconformingnon-conforming peopleindividuals can takemanifest variousin numerous formsways, fromincluding physical or sexual assaultviolence, homicide, limitedand restricted access to public spaces, inand healthcare and moreservices. The gender binary has been critiquedcriticized by intersectionality scholars of [[intersectionality]] as a structuremechanism that maintainsupholds [[Patriarchy|patriarchal]] and [[White supremacy|white supremacist]] norms aswithin parta of an interlockingbroader, hierarchicalinterconnected systemhierarchy of gender and race.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Scaptura|first1=Maria N.|first2=Brittany E.|last2=Hayes.|chapter=The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Extremist Violence.|title=The Routledge International Handbook on Femicide and Feminicide|date=2023|editor-first1=Myrna|editor-last1=Dawson|editor-first2=Saide Mobayed|editor-last2=Vega}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|first1=Jean Ait|last1=Belkhir|first2=Bernice McNair|last2=Barnett|title=Race, Gender and Class Intersectionality|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41674988|journal=Race, Gender & Class|date=March 2017|issn=1082-8354|pages=157–174|volume=8|issue=3|jstor=41674988 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|first1=Kimberlé|last1=Crenshaw|title=On Intersectionality: Essential Writings|url=https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/books/255|journal=Faculty Books|date=1 March 2017}}</ref>

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