But I had interviewed a dozen nonbinary people by phone before traveling to Maryland, one of several states where “Gender X” legislation was under consideration. Many nonbinary people I had talked with had already asked me not to mention whether they had been assigned female or male at birth, to deter readers from making false presumptions. I couldn’t imagine how the information would change what I asked or how I acted. For the average woman, they were a bit tall, I calculated, or maybe they were a touch shorter than the average man. I considered surreptitiously opening the file with my earlier notes, but I was busy taking new ones as they told me how information on nonbinary gender identities had been hard to come by just a few years earlier.

Source: New York Times June 02, 2019 14:03 UTC