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Celebrity Examples

Here are two different non-binary celebrities with different concepts of gender and what it means to be nonbinary.

Amandla Stenberg (left) is nonbinary and has used both they/them and she/her pronouns. They've stated that they feel like a woman sometimes and have said that, "[Gender] can be pretty much whatever you want it to be... I tend to believe that gender as we've set it up in current-day society doesn't actually exist."

Sam Smith (right) has used both the terms non-binary and genderqueer to describe themself, and now uses they/them pronouns. They stated, "I am not male or female. I think I float somewhere in between. It’s all on the spectrum.”

Both individuals use the same term to describe themselves, but define the term very differently, and their relationship with their gender is vastly different.

Here's another example of different people using the same term in different ways.

Ruby Rose (left) is genderfluid and a lesbian, and uses she/her pronouns. She came out as a lesbian as a child, and explained that throughout her life she has changed over time between feeling like a boy, feeling gender-neutral, and feeling like a woman. She has expressed that she is happy with her body as it is, without needing gender-affirming surgery, and still claims the term lesbian.

Jane Lynch (right) is a cisgender lesbian who uses she/her pronouns. She came out to herself at the age of 14, but never had a big "coming out" moment in public.

Having Multiple Identities

It's common to hear of LGBTQ+ people as having two different identities - a gender identity and a sexual orientation. However, there are also plenty of people who use three, four, five, or even more different labels to describe themselves. People change labels over time, use different labels in different situations, or simply identifies with many different labels at the same time and decides not to differentiate or settle on one over the other. This is perfectly fine and normal! Here are some examples of people that use or have used many different labels.

Elliot Page (he/they) came out publicly as a lesbian in 2014, but came out again in 2020 as queer, transgender, and nonbinary. He transitioned from presenting femininely to getting top surgery (a form of gender-affirming surgery that flattens the chest) and now presents masculinely.

Demi Levato (they/them) is a nonbinary, pansexual and sexually fluid person. They identified themself as queer in an interview in 2020, and came out as pansexual in March of 2021, saying in an interview that "I've always known I was hella queer, but I have fully embraced it". They came out in May 2021 as nonbinary and using they/them pronouns.

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