I was assigned female at birth and socialized as a girl in a Pentecostal family in Calgary, Alberta. The gender binary is still pretty ingrained in every level of interaction in Canada. Almost every day I am expected to declare myself as either a man or, at the very least, somewhere in the spectrum in-between.. Whether socially or legally, I encounter resistance to or denial of my identity every day. Over the past twenty years, trans-gender people have been gaining mainstream acceptance, but the concept of gender-neutrality is still pretty new to many people,and some just find it difficult to adapt to a non-binary pronoun.
