Stay strong if you find that you're the only nonbinary person in the room. You (probably) didn't ask for it, but you're clearly needed there.
Your presence is powerful and will have a good influence long after you've left the space.
Keep existing bravely.
It’s not your fault if you have to leave everyone you’ve ever known because they couldn’t accept you for being nonbinary.
It’s not a reflection of your inadequacy. It’s a sign of their failing.
And you are still lovable and worthy of friendship even if you have to start over.
Be glad that this time around you will have better, stronger relationships.
“There are only two genders.” “You just want attention.” These frantic statements are the dying breaths of an ideology.
These defenders of a rigid gender binary have been reduced to shouting hate behind anonymity and bluster with no hope of changing us.
Such acts are only to briefly lessen their own fear. They are afraid because we are winning.
So, keep fighting. Continue winning.
Give yourself the best care that you can.
There are many forces that want you to believe that you don't matter because you're nonbinary. But you are important to other nonbinary people, your community, and the world just for being you.
You matter and you need to care for yourself.
Your way of being nonbinary doesn't require justification. Anyone who assumes that nonbinary people must exist in a certain way are mistaken.
Live your life in a way that's true to you because that's the best proof that you could ever provide.
The process of transitioning can be difficult and imperfect. It's often painful, complicated, and far from a linear process. For nonbinary people it's even harder to find anything resembling an end point.
It's much the same as any kind of personal growth. There's pain and unexpected turns in the journey, but it's an experience that ultimately adds to your character.
Embrace the wilderness of it.
It's alright to be frustrated with the limited spaces that nonbinary people have carved out for ourselves in society.
It's important to be happy with what you have. However, frustration is also a sign that more work needs to be done.
Listen to that anger. Use it to push at the edges of what's "allowed" for you and make room for those after you.
You don't have to explain your experience of being a nonbinary person.
Sometimes cis women and cis men will discuss what their gender means to them, but not always and not to everyone.
Some things are so complex and intimate that only those closest to you get to be part of the discussion.
Free to use big cat nonbinary profile pics. A leopard, a jaguar, lions, and a tiger.
You're nonbinary whether or not you transition.
You're still nonbinary if you start taking different hormones or have surgery to feel more at home in your skin. You're still nonbinary if your body is already how you need it to be.
You are nonbinary and so are your choices.
Angular bodies or bodies with muscle are not inherently masculine. Soft bodies or bodies with curves are not inherently feminine.
You are what makes your body feminine, masculine, or something else entirely.
It's not your fault if you're stuck in a small town, and seemingly the only nonbinary person there.
Your gender is real even if you're the only one who knows.
Your gender is real even if the only place you can be yourself is online.
Simply by existing, nonbinary people burn away so many damaging ideas regarding gender and sexuality into the shapeless, empty mist those ideas always were.
We are a powerful and beautiful force of change.
This is a reminder that being nonbinary is not bad in any way. It's just as natural as brown eyes, shortness, strength, red hair, or being a woman or a man.
Being nonbinary is a natural expression of human diversity, and has all the goodness and beauty that entails.
Though the status of nonbinary people in a society change with time, we remain inextricably part of humanity.
Our roots are older than tradition and reach deeper than dogma.
There is a lot of emphasis placed on pursuing and being in romantic relationships even for nonbinary people.
But you are important as a nonbinary person regardless of your relationship status.
You're valuable to your community and yourself just as you are.
Being nonbinary is as natural as every other way to be human. It's blood, tears, and the mundane moments that make up a human life.
There is no way to extricate nonbinary people from humanity at large. We are innate to it.
You should be proud to be nonbinary.
Regardless of stage of life you're in or the choices you've made, it's taken tremendous effort to get to the point of knowing yourself this well.
Not only that, but maintaining that same truth in the face of oppression takes strength.
You are accomplished.
In case you need to be reminded, transitioning as a nonbinary person is worth the trouble.
You deserve to take the time, resources, and help necessary to change.
Becoming the best you is worth it for yourself and for your community.
