Living as a non-binary myself is pretty damn tough, i admit. I won’t sugar-coat the fact, patriarchy is deeply rooted in Indonesia resulting a huge gender gap between male and female and particularly non binaries.

Many of Indonesians cannot tell the difference between gender, sex, sexual orientation and such. Therefore, the term "gender" is often mixed up with "sex", yet deep in my thought it's something that biologically inherited combined with how social environment construct our perspective on how we perceived ourselves.

Bottom line: what they know and they had in faith is only two “genders” that exist, men and women. There is no such a thing as non-binary, for most of them. Some of our people degrade the nonbinaries as well and prolly treated us according to our biological sex rather than our gender expression (eg. No matter how non conformist you are, as long as you had vagina, they'll treat you like a girl in general, and vice versa)

Apparently, gender studies aren’t something that most Indonesians fond to even take a peek on it. Plus, casual sexism is also considered as pretty normal in Indonesia, sad i know.