From the beginning of our lives, we are categorized; then, taught the comfort and solidarity of this categorization, we learn to categorize ourselves. To be left without a category, or in the wrong one, brings discomfort and lost identity; to achieve one brings relief. Allow me to demonstrate.

The categories we get assigned at birth exist because of grand social and political systems. The first thing that happens when we enter this world is the proclamation, "It's a girl/boy!" And we are thus categorized into one or another gender. Those who are assigned the wrong gender, or who don't fit neatly into these two groups, feel uncomfortable in their identity and often get ostracized if they choose to live their own sense of the truth. Another category we receive instantly is citizenship. Now that belonging to one state or another has become, essentially, a global requirement, to be born without citizenship of a certain state allows a certain feeling of drifting, of not belonging anywhere. And to be incidentally born in one place or another then confines us to a very different type of life; this is why some people choose to attempt to birth their children in different countries.