There are many ways to experience gender that exist outside the binary. Nowadays, there are a variety of terms you might use to describe your gender identity, from cisgender to non-binary and many ...

Florence Ashley (they/them) is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Alberta and in the John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Shari ...

As a budding lesbian who was still mostly clueless about the LGBTQIA+ community, I didn't totally understand what it meant when my first girlfriend told me she identifies as "queer." If she's ...

The Mississippi House of Representatives passed on Wednesday a bill that seeks to define sex in strictly binary terms, impacting the recognition of transgender individuals’ identities within the state ...

There is no official “third gender” definition, as it encompasses a broad group of people who may or may not want to be associated with the term. Until very recently, gender was viewed solely as a ...

On Sunday, The New York Times reported that the Trump administration plans to define “gender” based on people’s external genitalia, as part of their larger efforts to roll back protections for ...

The Trump administration is reportedly looking to introduce a narrow definition of gender "as a biological, immutable condition" determined at birth, according to an Oct. 21 New York Times article.

The human mind is complex; human beings often have contradictory thoughts and ambivalent feelings. Sometimes the inability to be specific and choose one position or point of view over another ...

Here at Refinery29, we know that gender is a social construct, not an innate binary. And while there’s never been more evidence to support this fact, there’s also a disturbing amount of misinformation ...

The singular "they" is a pronoun option for people who don't strongly identify as either male or female and want to avoid "he" and "she." ...