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View submission: Do non-binary identities reenforce gender stereotypes?
Gender expression is your outward self-representation, how you express your gender, how you function in terms of social roles, etc. And of course there's the internal sense of gender.
This is the part I don't understand. If a male person can be male and express himself in any way he wants while still being male. How could his gender expression conflict with being male? If gender can be anything an individual wants it to mean, then it means nothing, and the word shouldn't be used at all.
The whole purpose of words is for communication between the speaker and the listener. Communication requires both parties to have the same meaning of a word for the communication to work.
If someone is non-binary that communicas zero information to the listener because that person could express themselves is any was they want (just like anyone can). This is different than someone being male/female because that tells you what's between their legs. That can be useful information like in to a doctor or when searching for a sexually compatible partner.
In my view, either gender = sex or the word gender is meaningless.
There's nothing here!