"Gender depends on something else for its existence. In a report published by The Trevor Project earlier this month, the organization found that 26% of LGBTQ+ youth identify as nonbinary, and even telling, an additional 20% responded that they weren’t sure or were questioning if they were.įor as far as we've come with the proliferation of nonbinary visibility in our culture, Kate says the relational nature of gender is still missing from the public conversation. There's now a name for the "the rest of us" - nonbinary - and these changes are reflected in the youngest generation of LGBTQ+ people. The trouble is, we’re living in a world that insists we be one or the other.” “I know I’m not a man and I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m probably not a woman, either. We've essentially caught up to what Kate Bornstein, the writer and gender theorist, wrote in Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and The Rest Of Us 27-years ago. While gender non-conforming people have always existed, now on a mass level, the mutability of gender is an accepted fact, one that's no longer exclusively tied to body parts or historical gender norms. There's been an extraordinary shift in recent years in terms of how the public thinks and talks about gender.
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