Opinion: I tend to fall in the camp of just letting people be who they say they are. You know — the stuff we all learned in kindergarten.
“All around the world, in different cultures and times, there’ve been nonbinary people, from Native American indigenous cultures to cultures in South Asia and Hawaii and Canada,” said Austin Davis Ruiz, the communications manager at the Montrose Center, which provides services to the LGBTQ community in Houston.
Think pink baby blankets versus blue ones. Think dolls versus toy guns. Think girls can’t do math versus boys don’t cry. Nova, who is not using their last name for privacy reasons, eventually got divorced and now identifies as pansexual, which means their attraction to others isn’t tied to gender.Indeed, gender encompasses shades of grey.
If you mess up and call a person by the wrong pronoun or name — the technical term is “misgendering” — just apologize and move on, said Michelli Ramon, a clinical social worker.
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