Notable people who aren't nonbinary: Difference between revisions

Andreja Pejić is a model who used to self-identify as neither male nor female, which was widely reported by the media. She came out as a woman in July 2014, with the intention to model only women's fashion.<ref>[http://www.glaad.org/blog/model-andreja-pejic-comes-out-publicly-transgender-woman-shares-her-experience-media-and "Model Andreja Pejic comes out publicly as a transgender woman, shares her experience with media and Facebook fans"], glaad.com, July 2014</ref> She has stated that she prefers she/her pronouns<ref name="pejic">[http://www.lamondamagazine.com/en/m/attack/andrej-pejic/ "ANDREJ PEJIC" in La Monda], 2013-11-05</ref> and that she identifies with the term [[transgender]] as an umbrella term.<ref name=pejicabc>[http://abcnews.go.com/Business/genderless-worlds-popular-male-model-walks-runways-heels/story?id=14522370#.T1uTNnJWqC8 "Genderless: World's Most Popular Male Model Walks Runways in Heels, Dresses"], Sept 2011, abc</ref>.

During the years before she came out as a woman, she had modeled both men's wear and women's wear, and would defy interviewers' attempts to label her with a gender. In 2011, in response to a question about how she self-defines, Pejić said "Define, refine, constrict, package, and sell... No thank you. I would like to live in a world where your gender, nationality, sexual orientation, and, above all, financial status didn't affect the opportunities you are given in life, the way you're treated by others, and your overall freedom. In a world like that, I wouldn't be given such a complex definition"<ref>[http://www.out.com/fashion/2011/11/24/catching-andrej-pejic "Catching Up With Andrej Pejic"], Out.com, Nov 2011</ref>. When pressed in an interview to reveal whether she saw a girl or boy in the mirror growing up, Pejić replied simply, "I saw a child"<ref name=pejicabc></ref>.

William December "Billy Dee" Williams Jr. (born 1937) is one of America's most well-known black film actors of the 1970s, best known for playing the adventurous Lando Calrissian in the Star Wars film franchise. In an interview with ''Esquire'' in 2019, Williams said, "I never tried to be anything except myself. I think of myself as a relatively colorful character who doesn’t take himself or herself too seriously. [...] And you see I say ‘himself’ and ‘herself,’ because I also see myself as feminine as well as masculine. I’m a very soft person. I’m not afraid to show that side of myself."<ref>Matt Miller. "The Enduring, Intergalactic Cool of Billy Dee Williams." ''Esquire''. Nov 26, 2019. https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a29817501/billy-dee-williams-star-wars-the-rise-of-skywalker-lando-calrissian-interview/</ref> Although that ''Esquire'' interviewer labels Williams with the word "[[genderfluid]]," Williams was not recorded as using that word during that interview. Based on that, several news articles afterward reported that Williams had come out genderfluid. A few days later, Williams explained that that was a misrepresentation of him, that he had never identified as genderfluid, and that he didn't know what that word meant. He explained that his remark in the ''Esquire'' interview was meant as a reference to the ''anima'', the feminine side present in all manhood, in Jungian psychology.<ref>Lily Wakefield. "Star Wars actor Billy Dee Williams says he’s not actually gender fluid and he doesn’t ‘really know what it means’." ''Pink News''. December 5, 2019. https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/12/05/gender-fluid-star-wars-actor-billy-dee-williams-lando-calrissian-donald-glover-rise-skywalker/</ref>