Nebinarita: Jak poznat nebinární osobu a existuje nebinární pohlaví?

Non-binary: How to recognize a non-binary person and is there a non-binary gender?

Definition

A non-binary person is someone who does not (fully) belong to either a man or a woman. The word “fully” is in parentheses on purpose, because some non-binary people are both men and women.

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Does that seem strange to you? Nonbinary looks different for different people. In fact, we could say that nonbinary is not a single gender (nonbinary gender), but a box for many gender categories .

Types of non-binary

Non-binary people include, for example, the following identities:

  • demiboy (a person who is part man),
  • demigirl (a person who is part woman),
  • gender fluid person (a person who changes genders throughout life),
  • bigender person (a person who has two genders at the same time) and
  • agender person (a person who has no gender).

What do non-binary people look like?

Non-binary people look the same as women or men, that is, differently. Although there are non-binary people who look androgynous (that is, they appear both masculine and feminine at the same time), this is not a requirement . A non-binary person does not wear one specific hairstyle, one specific outfit, etc.

Just as there are women with short hair or men with long hair, there are AFAB non-binary people (that is, people who were told they were female at birth) with long hair and earrings, or AMAB non-binary people (the opposite, people who were told they were male at birth) who have beards.

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On the other hand, we also find AFAB non-binary people in the world who wear short hair so that they are not misgendered (i.e. so that no one thinks they have a different gender than they actually are, in this case so that no one thinks they are women) or AMAB non-binary people who have long hair for exactly the same reason. Binders or packers also help with this.

How should I address non-binary people?

The same applies as before: different non-binary people have different experiences. It also depends on the language in which we speak to the non-binary person . For example, speakers of Hungarian or Persian have it the easiest, because in these languages ​​there are no grammatical genders (so we don't have to deal with whether to refer to someone as he, she, or whatever).

In Czech, non-binary people use not only masculine and feminine genders, but also the neuter or neutral gender (the pronoun one). Some people also alternate genders or use onikání .

When we don't know how to address someone, the easiest thing to do is to ask them. It's not rude! On the contrary, it's better than misgendering the person in question.

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