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 ====2019====
-* The main character Alex in ''Evergreen Sky'' is nonbinary and uses [[they/them]] pronouns.<ref>https://www.evergreenskypod.com/about</ref>
+* The main character Alex in ''Evergreen Sky'' is nonbinary and uses [[they/them]] pronouns.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.evergreenskypod.com/about |title=Archive copy |access-date=2020-11-23 |archive-date=2023-07-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230721001522/https://www.evergreenskypod.com/about |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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 * [https://aliceandthenightmare.com ''Alice and the Nightmare''] is a fantasy comic inspired by Alice's Adventures In Wonderland. Dee and Dum, two supporting characters, are nonbinary and use they/them pronouns.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aliceandthenightmare.com/comic/chapter-2-page-34|title=Chapter 2 Page 34|last=Krivanek|first=Michelle "Misha"|date=17 November 2015|website=Alice and the Nightmare|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200220100400/http://www.aliceandthenightmare.com:80/comic/chapter-2-page-34|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>
 * [https://dumbingofage.com ''Dumbing of Age''] by David Willis is a coming of age story about college students.  Booster is nonbinary.
+* [https://pandorastale.com Pandora's Tale] by Xanthippe Serenity Hutcheon focuses on a trans girl, but it features Hemmel a nonbinary character, and Zufolene, a genderfluid character.
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 * In the fourth season of ''Degrassi: Next Class'', Yael Baron comes out as [[genderqueer]]. Yael is played by Jamie Bloch.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tvguide.com/news/degrassi-next-class-yael-genderqueer/|work=TV Guide|date=7 July 2017|last=Gennis|first=Sadie|title=Degrassi: Next Class: [Spoiler] Comes Out as the Show's First Genderqueer Character!|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221207063856/https://www.tvguide.com/news/degrassi-next-class-yael-genderqueer/|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>
 *The comedy-drama miniseries ''Fucking Adelaide'' (aka ''F*!#ing Adelaide'') features a [[genderfluid]] child, Cleo, played by nonbinary actor [[Audrey Mason-Hyde]].<ref name="Tedmanson">{{Cite web |title=How non-binary teenager Audrey Mason-Hyde is breaking down gender identity stereotypes, one label at a time |last=Tedmanson |first=Sophie |work=Vogue Australia |date=1 January 2019 |access-date=3 May 2020 |url= https://www.vogue.com.au/culture/lifestyle/how-nonbinary-teenager-audrey-masonhyde-is-breaking-down-gender-identity-stereotypes-one-label-at-a-time/news-story/9c213c8adcd6395a7ff8abf41592e4d3|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230512040141/https://www.vogue.com.au/culture/lifestyle/how-nonbinary-teenager-audrey-masonhyde-is-breaking-down-gender-identity-stereotypes-one-label-at-a-time/news-story/9c213c8adcd6395a7ff8abf41592e4d3 |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>
+*''The Murderbot Diaries'', by Martha Wells, features an agender protagonist who uses it/its pronouns. A number of minor characters use the singular "they" or other nonbinary pronouns.
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 * In the visual novel ''//TODO: today'', the protagonist and the main characters Joyce and Phoenix can be [[male]], [[female]], or [[nonbinary]], depending on player's choices.<ref>[https://vndb.org/v21649/chars#chars VNDB {{!}} //TODO: today characters] [https://web.archive.org/web/20220819120206/https://vndb.org/v21649/chars Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>
 * In the visual novel ''When The Night Comes'', the romanceable character August is nonbinary and uses [[they/them]] pronouns.<ref>https://lunarisgames.itch.io/wtnc [https://web.archive.org/web/20230524101833/https://lunarisgames.itch.io/wtnc Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>
 *In the RPG ''Deltarune'', the main character Kris is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns.
+* In the strategy/simulation game ''Your Royal Gayness'', the royal spymaster, Seraph, says "Just 'spymaster' will do, thank you. Or Seraph. I don't care for [[honorifics|all that 'sir' and 'lady' stuff.]]" This dialogue pretty explicitly shows that Seraph doesn't identify with the male nor female gender. Additionally, the "Library" section of the game refers to Seraph with [[they/them]] pronouns, and implies that Seraph is not their "[[Names|real name]]".<ref>Lizard Hazard Games. ''Your Royal Gayness''. 2018.</ref>
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 *The ''Culture'' series by Iain M. Bank is centred around a postgender civilisation.
 **As described in ''Excession'', the humans are able to change sex by just thinking it, and nanomachines alter their anatomy accordingly over a period of a few days.  It is described as common for couples to take turns bearing children.
-*''Bone Dance'' by Emma Bull. Character: the protagonist, Sparrow, is canonically described as "sexless" and "genderless." The exact details of their identity [http://practicalandrogyny.com/raq/bonedanc.shtml are a matter of debate (spoilers)].
+*''Bone Dance'' by Emma Bull. Character: the protagonist, Sparrow, is canonically described as "sexless" and "genderless." The exact details of their identity [https://web.archive.org/web/20160701082646/http://practicalandrogyny.com/raq/bonedanc.shtml are a matter of debate (spoilers)].
 *M.C.A. Hogarth's science-fiction series about the Jokka, an alien species that can randomly change sex twice at puberty, with three sexes, and three corresponding rigid gender roles: female, male, and neuter. These stories focus on individuals who don't conform to those prescribed gender roles, and some could be considered transgender. However, the author often publicly voices her opposition to transgender rights in real life, saying she "Will never stop fighting this trans thing. Never.";<ref>M.C.A. Hogarth. Tweet. April 5, 2022. https://twitter.com/mcahogarth/status/1511294884514308097 Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20220820220131/https://twitter.com/mcahogarth/status/1511294884514308097</ref> agreeing with anti-transgender author Abigail Shrier's opposition of the informed consent model of pediatric transgender health care;<ref>M.C.A. Hogarth. October 25, 2021. Tweet. https://twitter.com/mcahogarth/status/1452699729519947791 Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20211026003911/https://twitter.com/mcahogarth/status/1452699729519947791</ref> saying she liked Debrah Soh's anti-transgender book;<ref>M.C.A. Hogarth. Tweet. May 11, 2022. https://twitter.com/mcahogarth/status/1524463492266352643 Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20220511185719/https://twitter.com/mcahogarth/status/1524463492266352643</ref> siding with a student who expressed anti-transgender views, in reply to an anti-transgender Twitter account;<ref>M.C.A. Hogarth. Tweet. May 17, 2022. https://twitter.com/mcahogarth/status/1526501664747933696 Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20220517095601/https://twitter.com/mcahogarth/status/1526501664747933696</ref> being a fan of an anti-trans podcaster;<ref>M.C.A. Hogarth. Tweet. July 15, 2022. https://twitter.com/mcahogarth/status/1547926016521162752 Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20220715124900/https://twitter.com/mcahogarth/status/1547926016521162752</ref> asserting the anti-transgender claim that "cisgender is a slur";<ref>M.C.A. Hogarth. Tweet. April 29, 2022. https://twitter.com/mcahogarth/status/1520102220510937088 Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20220821051705/https://twitter.com/mcahogarth/status/1520102220510937088</ref> and saying that transgender people should never transition, and should instead content themselves with "the flesh God gave" them.<ref>M.C.A. Hogarth. Tweet. August 23, 2021. https://twitter.com/mcahogarth/status/1429783919889637376 Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20220818215810/https://twitter.com/mcahogarth/status/1429783919889637376</ref> This is an example of how authors who write representation of gender-variant characters can't be assumed to support the human rights of gender-variant people in real life and may even actively oppose it.
 *''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Left_Hand_of_Darkness The Left Hand of Darkness]'' by Ursula K. Le Guin is a classic science fiction novel published in 1976 featuring a race of people whose sexes become male or female only briefly for reproduction, and whose genders can be a variety of masculine, feminine, both or neither.
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 *''[[Wikipedia:The Sandman (Vertigo)|The Sandman]]'' by Neil Gaiman and various artists - seminal graphic novel series, as recommended in [[Nonbinary_celebrities#Kate_Bornstein|Kate Bornstein]]'s ''My New Gender Workbook'' as having "Lots of good gender play." One character, Desire, is a being who can have any sex or gender.
 * In ''[http://tapastic.com/series/The-Satrians The Satrians],'' a comic by Carlisle Robinson, a satyr-like alien species called Satrians have only one sex, and [http://tapastic.com/episode/221562 no concept of gender]. They're all called by the pronoun set [[Pronouns#Xe|xe]], xyr, xem.<ref>Carlisle Robinson. "FAQ about gender." ''The Satrians''. http://tapastic.com/episode/221562 [https://web.archive.org/web/20180902202745/http://tapastic.com/episode/221562 Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>
-*In ''[http://spectracomic.smackjeeves.com Spectra]'', a science fiction comic by Cori Walters, the main characters are members of an alien species that has one sex, and all people voluntarily choose which of several gender roles they identify with. Outside of the story, Walters said, "They only have one physical sex but they have three socially enforced genders (or four if you count young children, who are seen as genderless until they choose their role in society.) For simplification reasons, in the comic the three main ones are referred to as he, she, and ne. The 'male' role is that of destruction, the 'female' is that of creation, and the third gender is that of preservation." The comic started in 2013 and is still in progress.<ref>''Spectra.'' [http://spectracomic.smackjeeves.com http://spectracomic.smackjeeves.com/] [https://web.archive.org/web/20201102162719/http://spectracomic.smackjeeves.com/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>
+*In ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20201102162719/http://spectracomic.smackjeeves.com/ Spectra]'', a science fiction comic by Cori Walters, the main characters are members of an alien species that has one sex, and all people voluntarily choose which of several gender roles they identify with. Outside of the story, Walters said, "They only have one physical sex but they have three socially enforced genders (or four if you count young children, who are seen as genderless until they choose their role in society.) For simplification reasons, in the comic the three main ones are referred to as he, she, and ne. The 'male' role is that of destruction, the 'female' is that of creation, and the third gender is that of preservation." The comic started in 2013 and is still in progress.<ref>''Spectra.'' [http://spectracomic.smackjeeves.com http://spectracomic.smackjeeves.com/] [https://web.archive.org/web/20201102162719/http://spectracomic.smackjeeves.com/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>
 * The comic series ''Crash and Burn'' involves "a genderless race of bird-like aliens" called the ornos.<ref>https://www.comixology.com/Crash-and-Burn/comics-series/78750 [https://web.archive.org/web/20210906133101/https://www.comixology.com/Crash-and-Burn/comics-series/78750 Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>