“In my heart and in my head, I always knew I didn’t fit into the world’s idea of girl and boy. Even as young as seven or eight, I remember wondering why I was constantly forced into doing things little girls liked to do.
I always thought if I want to wear a dress and heels one day and then basketball shorts and a T-shirt the next, I should be able to without being told, ‘You look like a boy today,’ as if that’s a negative thing. But really, terminology-wise, I had no idea what non-binary meant until I started researching in high school and then it clicked. But I was nervous about telling people. I still am. It can be nerve-racking to tell someone, ‘Hey actually, I identify as…
