In a later interview, she shared, “Now, being nonbinary, I feel so comfortable to just be that, and so uncomfortable to be a girl or a boy-it’s just not who I am.” I don’t know how we deal with that in a world so desperate to define by gender,” she said. My gender identity and expression is entirely about me, and not about how other people perceive me. At 12, Audrey gave a TED talk about being nonbinary. For a while, Audrey identified as a tomboy, but didn’t feel that captured who she really was. 2005) was assigned female at birth but likes wearing bow ties and other clothing typically associated with men ( in interviews, Audrey has said she/her pronouns are fine, though she doesn’t like to be referred to as a girl or a boy). Notes: Figure shows percent who disagree with the statement “There are only two genders, male and female.” Late 2019 data were collected July 18 to December 26 early 2020 data were collected January 2 to June 25 late 2020–early 2021 data were collected Jto January 12, 2021.Īudrey Mason-Hyde (b. And if everyone states their pronouns, that makes “it easier for non-cis people or friends to then say their pronouns without having to be the first to say it,” a young woman told the authors of Gen Z, Explained. This rainbow of identities is why Gen Z thinks it is important to state your pronouns (for example, she/her, he/him, they/ them), as it may not be obvious which set(s) someone prefers.
There’s also agender (someone who doesn’t identify with having a gender at all). There’s AMAB (assigned male at birth) and AFAB (assigned female at birth), terms meant to express that sex is assigned by others.
There’s cisgender (or cis, someone whose gender identity is congruent with their sex assigned at birth-who’s not transgender). Gen Z speaks a whole language of gender often barely understood by their Gen X and even Millennial parents-or by most people just a few short years ago. there’s also gender fluid, gender queer, demiboy, demigirl, and many other terms describing self-definitions of gender). Not only can people be transgender, identifying with a gender different from their sex assigned at birth, but they can identify as neither male nor female (often called nonbinary, sometimes shortened to enby, the phonetic of N.B. For Gen Z (those born 1995-2012), the whole concept of gender is more fluid.
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