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Gender NonConforming
WHEN GEN Z MEET
NON-BINARY
LESBIAN
SOMEBODY FOR
ANDROGYNOUS FREE
GAY WOMAN …
THE FIRST TIME,
OVER ONE-THIRD
OF THEM EXPECT
TRANSMASCULINE
THE PERSON
TO TELL THEM
ANDROGYNOUS WOMAN
HOW THEY IDENTIFY
QUEER
AND WHAT THEIR
PREFERRED
DEMI-SEXUAL
PRONOUNS ARE.
label- “
ing
I am routinely misgendered
in personal and professional
circumstances even after I’ve
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“
Get used to asking people
their pronouns (she, her, him,
his, they, them) and don’t
“
But we can’t let our very
deep and very real need for
identification obscure the
told people my pronouns. assume a person’s gender — most pressing issues at hand:
It can be very difficult to cor- regardless whether you see the barriers every day that
rect people, especially when them as male or female pre- trans and gender noncon-
economic power dynamics senting. forming people face finding
are in play. Sometimes peo- housing, employment, and
ple demand that I explain my healthcare, among other
identity, break down to them basic necessities. We have
how and why I do not feel to pay close attention to the
like a man or a woman. profusion of culture around
us in order to find where the
struggle has been obscured,
or perhaps worse, co-opted.
What is next