17 Famous People Who Identify As Nonbinary Or Genderfluid
1.Lily Gladstone (she/they)
Lily opened up about using the pronouns "she" and "they" to "decolonize gender for myself." "In most Native languages, most Indigenous languages, Blackfeet included, there are no gendered pronouns. There is no he/she, there’s only they," Lily explained. They also added, “I remember being 9 years old and just being a little disheartened, seeing how often a lot of my boy cousins were misgendered because they wore their hair long. It happens to a lot of kids, I think, especially Native boys leaving a community where long hair is celebrated [and then] just kind of getting teased for it. So I remember back then being like, everybody should just be they.”
2.G Flip (they/them)
In an interview with Refinery29, they said, "I didn't even have a character on TV or a musician or singer to listen to and consume their art or consume their words to feel less alone and to feel seen. I want to be that person that I never had as a kid because I know how it feels. I know that if I can make one kid feel less like I did, then my job is done."
So, their music has sought to provide more nonbinary representation in the music industry with lyrics like, "I grew up uncomfortable. Eleven years old and I wanted to die, I don't feel like I'm a girl, nor a boy so where do I lie?"
3.Liv Hewson (they/them)
Liv publicly came out as nonbinary after being out with their family and friends for nine years. They shared, “It was a risk, yes, but at the end of the day, I really felt it was a risk I had to take. It was not sustainable to compartmentalize myself."
Last year, they refused to participate in Emmy nominations because the award categories are still gender specific. Liv explained, "My issue is so structural, I don't think it would be honest for me to attempt to work within this system. Here's what I thought about: Best-case scenario, career-wise, I, hypothetically, would be nominated for an Emmy, which would be an honor. Then the best-case scenario is that I would, hypothetically, win. And then I would go home with a trophy that says 'actress' on it. I don't want that."
4.Jonathan Van Ness (they/he/she)
In 2019, JVN came out as gender nonconforming and explained that some days they "feel like a man, but then other days [they] feel like a woman." They shared, "I just am either, like, gender-bendy or nonconform-y or nonbinary, and somedays I feel like a boy and somedays I feel like a girl. I didn’t think I was allowed to be nonconforming or genderqueer or nonbinary — I was just always, like, 'a gay man' because that’s just the label I thought I had to be."
5.Emma D'Arcy (they/them)
“When I was starting out, I really felt that I had to present as a woman in order to find success in this industry,” they told E! News. “It wasn’t sustainable, and I stopped pretending. And weirdly, at that point, I got nominated for Best Actress for the Golden Globes, which is, like, beautifully ironic.”
6.Gerard Way (he/they)
In 2015, Gerard clarified his pronouns in a tweet saying, "I have always preferred he/they."
7.Elliot Page (he/they)
Back in 2020, Elliot publicly identified as trans and nonbinary, saying, "I feel overwhelming gratitude for the incredible people who have supported me along this journey. I can’t begin to express how remarkable it feels to finally love who I am enough to pursue my authentic self. I’ve been endlessly inspired by so many in the trans community."
8.Sara Ramírez (they/them)
Back in 2020, Sara came out publicly with the Instagram caption, "In me is the capacity to be Girlish boy Boyish girl Boyish boy Girlish girl All Neither #nonbinary ♥️💛🤍💜🖤♥️." They later said that coming out felt "freeing" and playing Che Diaz on And Just Like That... was a "perfect fit." They explained, "This character will teach me a lot about how to embrace the power that you have even against systems that would have you shut down."
9.Halsey (she/they)
After quietly updating her pronouns on Instagram, Halsey shared, "I am happy with either pronouns :) the inclusion of 'they' in addition to 'she' feels most authentic to me. if you know me at all you know what it means to me to express this outwardly." They later went on to explain that pregnancy affected their perception of gender even more: "My sensitivity to my body has made me hyper aware of my humanness, and that’s all. Doing a remarkable thing. And it’s grand. I hope the feeling lasts."
10.Emma Corrin (they/them)
Emma shared that playing Princess Diana on The Crown made them realize they were nonbinary. They told the New York Times, "I feel like Diana helped me explore so many depths of myself and really do a big internal discovery of what I was feeling about everything because she was a very complex person." They also explained to ITV News, "It's taken me a long time to realize that I exist somewhere in between, and I'm still not sure where that is yet."
11.Janelle Monáe (they/she)
In April 2022, Janelle came out on an episode of Red Table Talk. They said, “I just don’t see myself as a woman solely. I feel all of my energy. I feel like God is so much bigger than the 'he' or the 'she.' And if I am from God, I am everything. But I will always, always stand with women. I will always stand with Black women. But I just see everything that I am, beyond the binary.”
12.Amandla Stenberg (she/they)
Amandla publicly came out as nonbinary in a series of Tumblr posts after a fan asked for their pronouns. They explained, "I mean they/them makes me feel comfortable, but I know that the media and the general populace that follows me will critique it/not understand which makes me feel sad and almost more uncomfortable." They told People Magazine, "[Gender] can be pretty much whatever you want it to be. I tend to believe that gender as we've set it up in current-day society doesn't actually exist."
13.E. R. Fightmaster (they/them)
“I think it’s really important when you are an actor with an identity that gets discussed a lot, or rather is in discussion, to be firm in how much of your identity you bring to the show,” they explained to NBC while discussing their role as Kai on Grey's Anatomy. “I have also learned a lot about what aspects of nonbinary are most confusing to people, and…things about the identity that need to be handled well or need to be handled with grace, and how to talk with people who aren’t familiar with this identity in a gentle and educational way.”
14.Alex Newell (he/she/they)
Alex became one of the first nonbinary people to win a Tony Award for acting at the 2023 ceremony. When they were asked about being nominated in a gendered category, they said, “I look at the word ‘actor’ as one, my vocation, and two, genderless. We don’t say plumbess for plumber. We don’t say janitoress for janitor. We say plumber, we say janitor. That’s how I look at the word, and that’s how I chose my category.”
15.Bella Ramsey (they/them)
Bella first publicly came out during an interview with the New York Times. At the time, they said, "I guess my gender has always been very fluid. Someone would call me 'she' or 'her' and I wouldn't think about it, but I knew that if someone called me 'he,' it was a bit exciting." In another interview with Vogue, Bella shared, “I had a lot of anxiety around pronouns. When The Last of Us first came out, I was like, Everyone just call me ‘she’ because I look like a ‘she’ to you, so it’s fine. But now, I’m able to vocalize it more, being called ‘they’ is the most truthful thing for me. That’s who I am the most.”
16.Kehlani (she/they)
In 2020, Kehlani opened up to Diva Magazine about being on the "non-binary scale." "I’m definitely on the non-binary scale," she said. "But I still prefer and am totally fine with the pronoun 'she.' My energy has always been extremely fluid between masculine and feminine, so that’s why I use 'queer,' and also, queer is inclusive to non-binary people." Shortly after, Kehlani changed the pronouns in their Twitter bio to "she/they."
17.Sam Smith (they/them)
On Jameela Jamil's podcast, I Weigh Interviews, Sam first publicly shared that they identify as nonbinary and said, “When I saw the word nonbinary, genderqueer, and I read into it, and I heard these people speaking, I was like, ‘Fuck, that is me.’” They continued, “I am not male or female. I think I float somewhere in between."
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