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Hi everyone, and welcome back to Buzzword Mix. In today's Buzzword Mix our buzzword is Non-binary.

If you know the original meaning of the word binary, you probably are getting a bit confused. Are we talking about mathematics?

今天的buzzword叫non-binary, 如果你知道binary原来的意思是二进制的时候,  it's a system of zeros and ones, you probably think that we're talking about math, but actually, non-binary is a social concept.

Now, to understand non-binary, first of all, we need to understand what binary stands for here.  

Some societies like ours tend to recognize just two genders, male and female.

The idea that there are only two genders is sometimes called a “gender binary”, because binary means “having two parts”, male and female.

要了解今天的 buzzword, 首先要知道这里的binary它指的不是二进制, 而是指的所谓的很多的社会里面的gender binary, 就是性别的二元化, 男性和女性.

These are the only two options.

So when you use “non-binary” to refer to someone, this is a term that people use to describe genders that don't really fall into one of these categories, male or female.

所以non-binary就被翻译成非二元性别者.

Again, you're probably getting a bit more confused.

Now most people, even including transgender people, are either male or female in most societies, but some people don't neatly fit into the categories of men or women, male or female.