Noun - As in sexism or
racism, binarism refers to a collection of harmful thoughts, actions, laws, and other social systems that uplift one group of
people while erasing or otherwise harming a minority group. In the case of binarism, the word refers to actions and thoughts that promote the gender binary (male/female) while excluding, erasing, or otherwise harming people of other genders or no gender at all.
People harmed by binarism are generally
people within the nonbinary gender umbrella, or agender. Binarism is often exhibited towards nonbinary people by
cis gender and binary trans gender people alike.
The adjective form of binarism is binarist. A specific thought/action/etc that exhibits binarism is said to be binarist in quality.
I wish
people would say "honored guests" instead of "ladies and gentlemen" when addressing groups. "Ladies and gentlemen" is so binarist! It makes
my heart hurt just to hear it. I really wish binarism wasn't a thing, and that
people like me were recognized as being real.