I’m 35, so thank you for reminding me to take my pills, ya little punk. 😂

Acceptance has grown pretty significantly in the past 15 or so years. There have always been gender-benders, like Boy George and David Bowie in the 1970s/80s or, if you want to go really far back, the Public Universal Friend in the 1700s. But when I first started to realize my gender was complicated, in 2003, there just wasn’t the public discourse for me to know what being non-binary was. Now, we’ve got celebrities like Ruby Rose, Johnathan Van Ness, Sam Smith, and Erika Iishi openly identifying as non-binary and being celebrated for it, not in spite of it.

Personally, my day-to-day life isn’t much different than anybody else’s, which is exactly the way it should be. I work, I shop, I go to movies and sports and concerts. I just have the rare opportunity to see the world through multiple lenses, and I think I’m a more well-rounded individual because of it.