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The term gender binary describes the system in which a society allocates its members into one of two sets of gender roles and gender identities, which assign attributes based on their biological sex (chromosomal and genitalia). [12] In the case of intersex people, the gender binary system is limited. Those who are intersex have rare genetic ...
Elisa Rae Shupe [2] (formerly Jamie Shupe; born James Clifford Shupe) is a retired United States Army soldier who in 2016 became the first person in the United States to obtain legal recognition of a non-binary gender. In 2019, she released a statement explaining that she had "returned to [her] male birth sex."
non-binary [9] [5] can be defined as "does not subscribe to the gender binary but identifies with neither, both, or beyond male and female". [20] The term may be used as "an umbrella term, encompassing several gender identities, including intergender, agender, xenogender, genderfluid, and demigender."
Non-binary people have been around since at least 400 B.C. to 200 A.D., according to Healthline, when “Hijras (people in India who identified as beyond male or female) were referenced in ancient ...
"There are many reasons why a non-binary person may use 'they' pronouns. One reason is that 'they' does imply any information about a person’s gender." A great way to ask about someone's ...
The first transgender person elected to the Hawaii legislature. Previously the first transgender person elected to statewide office in Hawaii (Board of Education, 2006). [44] Wick Thomas: Democratic Missouri: Missouri House of Representatives, District 19 2025- The first out nonbinary person elected to state office in Missouri. [44]
Seven people have filed a federal lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's executive order declaring that the U.S. government would only recognize a person's sex assigned at birth on ...
In cultures where the gender binary is prominent and important, transgender people are a major exception to the societal norms related to gender. [3] Intersex people, those who cannot be biologically determined as either male or female, are another obvious deviation. Other cultures have their own practices independent of the Western gender binary.