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* Singer, songwriter, and actor [[Miley Cyrus]] explained she didn't relate to being a girl or a boy.<ref name=cyrusout> | * Singer, songwriter, and actor [[Miley Cyrus]] explained she didn't relate to being a girl or a boy.<ref name=cyrusout>{{Cite web |title=Exclusive: Miley Cyrus Launches Anti-Homelessness, Pro-LGBT ‘Happy Hippie Foundation’ |last=Krochmal |first=Shana Naomi |work=out.com |date=May 5, 2015 |access-date=October 27, 2020 |url= https://www.out.com/music/2015/5/05/exclusive-miley-cyrus-launches-anti-homelessness-pro-lgbt-happy-hippie-foundation}}</ref> | ||
*The Washington Post style guide was updated to allow use of [[singular they]], with Post copy editor Bill Walsh saying: {{quote|What finally pushed me from acceptance to action on [[gender neutral pronouns|gender-neutral pronouns]] was the increasing visibility of [[gender-neutral]] people. The Post has run at least one profile of a person who identifies as neither male nor female and specifically requests ''they'' and the like instead of ''he'' or ''she''. Trans and [[genderqueer]] awareness will raise difficult questions down the road, with some people requesting [[Neopronouns|newly invented or even individually made-up pronouns]]. [...] But simply allowing ''they'' for a [[gender-nonconforming]] person is a no-brainer. And once we've done that, why not allow it for the most awkward of those ''he or she'' situations that have troubled us for so many years?<ref>{{cite web |date= December 4, 2015 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-post-drops-the-mike--and-the-hyphen-in-e-mail/2015/12/04/ccd6e33a-98fa-11e5-8917-653b65c809eb_story.html| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200117232610/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-post-drops-the-mike--and-the-hyphen-in-e-mail/2015/12/04/ccd6e33a-98fa-11e5-8917-653b65c809eb_story.html |archive-date=January 17, 2020 |last=Walsh |first=Bill |title=The Post drops the 'mike' — and the hyphen in 'e-mail'}}</ref>}} | |||
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This article on the history of nonbinary gender should focus on events directly or indirectly concerning people with nonbinary gender identities. It should not be about LGBT history in general. However, this history will likely need to give dates for a few events about things other than nonbinary gender, such as major events that increased visibility of transgender people in general, gender variant people from early history who may or may not have been what we think of as nonbinary, and laws that concern intersex people that can also have an effect on the legal rights of nonbinary people.
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