Societal structures were historically designed to force neurodivergent individuals to conform to narrow expectations, though modern society provides more freedom to express individual differences.

“that for so long we’ve been living in societies that expected children and people to behave in a certain way and that if you fell outside of that bell curve, then you were unacceptable in some way.”

Adherence to rigid gender binaries is a response to a desperate need for certainty amidst societal discomfort with change.

“And so people desperately need to hold on to some sense of certainty and trans people and our existence does not allow that and there is a cognitive dissonance and there's an anger because there's not There's so little that we can hold on to that that we can be certain about in these times.”