Intersex activist Emily Quinn delivered a Ted Talk in November 2018.

During her speech, Quinn discussed the difficulties faced by people who don’t meet society’s expectations of them, based on a binary model of biological sex and gender.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stUl_OapUso

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I discussed the terms "LGBT" and "Queer" in "The Big Picture."

I also discussed the history behind the Rainbow pride flag and the Progress pride flag.

https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2023/09/the-big-picture.html

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Season 3 of "LGBT by the Numbers" discusses the past 10 years of results from the Gender Census, an annual global online survey of nonbinary people.

In this article, I discussed the terms gender non-conforming, genderqueer, and enby.

https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2025/02/additional-umbrella-terms.html

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Lambda Legal has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on behalf of seven transgender Americans, including one who is nonbinary, who seek to receive passports that accurately reflect who they are.

https://lambdalegal.org/case/schlacter-v-us-dept-of-state/

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On the first day of his second term, Trump signed an executive order that prevents transgender and nonbinary Americans from receiving passports that accurately reflect their gender identity.

https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2025/02/an-endless-series-of-outrages.html

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I covered the lawsuits that led the Biden administration to adopt policies that allowed transgender, nonbinary, and intersex Americans to receive passports that accurately reflect their identities.

https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-fight-for-accurate-identity.html

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"LGBT Identity by Gender" examines the percent of men and women in each generation that identify as bisexual, gay, lesbian, and transgender.

https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2024/04/lgbt-identity-by-gender.html

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Ahead of pride month, join me on a tour of my LGBT Button Collection.

https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2024/03/lgbt-button-collection.html

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In addition to hearing these identity terms, you might also see the colorful pride flags associated with them.

The most common gender identity flags are the transgender, nonbinary, and genderfluid flags.

I discussed these flags in "Gender Identity and Biological Sex."

https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2023/10/gender-identity-and-biological-sex.html

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The most recent article in Season 3, "Genderfluid and Agender," examines the two most common specific nonbinary genders.

https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2025/04/genderfluid-and-agender.html

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Season 3 of "LGBT by the Numbers" examines the past decade of results from the Gender Census, an annual global survey of nonbinary people.

Season 3 is ongoing.

"Top of the Charts" discussed the most common terms nonbinary people use to describe themselves.

https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2025/01/top-of-charts.html

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