International Non-Binary People’s Day 2022: Non-binary doesn’t look like you think it does – I would know
The IndependentThe best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy It’s Non-Binary Awareness Week, a time for celebration of the broad spectrum that makes up this wonderful, yet gravely misunderstood, community. At this juncture, I should make it clear that while some gender-fluid individuals also identify as non-binary, the terms aren’t one and the same. For many non-binary people, there’s no fluidity with their gender identity, and that’s perfectly okay; we aren’t fixed labels like in clothing. Take our clothes for example, one of the defining ways many of us express ourselves, yet the moment you come out as non-binary you’re expected to change to suit everyone else’s ideology.
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