As binary abolitionists, we can see the violence, falsity, and crumbling pillars of binarism. Of course, this begs the question: what next? If not this, then what? If you read my article on the concept of the “gender trinary”, you likely already know of my disdain for finite gender systems. Two genders, ten genders, a hundred genders; any limited gender arity is doomed to inevitably exclude and oppress those who fall outside of it. The true, positive end of binary abolition will not be more boxes, but the dissolution of them as a whole. I have seen this sentiment expressed throughout various works of transfeminism and xenofeminism, that being a system of infinite genders and sexes, however I am under the impression it has not yet been named. I like to call it the omniary gender system. In a lot of ways, omniary gender is already in front of our eyes, we just haven’t realized it. Many have already accepted that both gender and sex are spectrums, not binaries. What isn’t often acknowledged is that, as a spectrum, it is only logical that there are infinite points between the two extremes. Unfortunately, these infinite points are often themselves limited. To borrow from mathematics, I will call these systems bounded sets. For instance, there are infinite points between male and female on a spectrum; however, this infinity is limited between, well, male and female. While the idea of sex and gender spectrums is a vital leap from binarism, it remains, mathematically and philosophically, a bounded set. Its infinity is a constrained infinity; an infinite subdivision between two set points This is an important distinction. An omniary gender system is not aninfinity; it is infinity. A natural question one may have is why a system of infinite gender? Why not one of no gender? Its a reasonable question to ask, and I admit that, should an omniary system come around and eventually evolve into a nullary (genderless) system, I will welcome it, so long as it evolves naturally and without coercion. The goal of binary abolition is, in the end, liberation. However, should a nullary system be adopted, it must be predated by an omniary one. Jumping straight from a binary system to a nullary system risks a new form of erasure. It risks mirroring binarism’s demand that individuals give up self-experience that is meaningful to them. A truly fair nullary system, if it were to exist at all, must emerge from collective choice. Above all, it must uphold liberation from coercive categorization. An omniary system is the logical conclusion of binary abolition. It trades a finite number or bounded set for self-definition.
