“Find your community, find folks that will support you in your journey, and will let you explore who you are.”
at the University of California, Los Angeles, which found that an estimated 11 percent of LGBTQ+ people identify as nonbinary. “And that's about 1.2 million nonbinary people in the United States,” they add. “So when I say you're not alone, you're definitely not alone.
I did some research, and eventually I found out that there are a million other gender identities. I did so much research and I read so much and realized that I was genderqueer. I wasn't cisgender, but I wasn't entirely within a binary. I had found this third gender, or third identity, that I had been looking for for so long and wasn't able to find anywhere. It was a very awakening experience.
My advice is to give yourself time to figure it out. Don't rush it and know that you are valid in your identity, no matter what it is. Even if other people think it's weird or unconventional.”“When I was growing up, I had a flat chest and would dress masculine sometimes, and I would get made fun of endlessly for having a flat chest, for looking like a boy. I remember in middle school, there was this kid that was younger than me following me around school, shouting, ‘You look like a boy.
I remember coming out to my family. I remember it being a little more scary than coming out as queer. As I said before, nonbinary is a very foreign term. For me, it was scarier because it was more of having to explain what it was. It’s hard to explain because being nonbinary has no rules to it. It's just a matter of identity and expression of gender. It’s hard to explain how it is and who I am sometimes. I remember telling my parents and they had no questions for me.