These five people challenged gender norms this year.
Brandon Jordan, who you may remember from their sassy voguing on the news wrote for MTV news: “Everyone always asks which gender I identify as, and I just answer with a simple, ’Why not both?’ I do not know who I will be, where I am going or whom I will identify as in the future, but for now this is what I am extremely and finally comfortable with during these awkward teenage-development years.”
We talk a lot about trans issues on this site, because we are all about equality here, and that involves not having to fit into any kind of box. There was a sex pun somewhere in that sentence, but I will leave it alone for the sake of posterity.
2015 was a pretty awesome time for trans people, from the phenomenon that was Caitlyn Jenner winning the woman of the year award, to people like Ruby Rose from Orange is the New Black, who made the genitals of a nation stand to attention, regardless of sexuality.
Younger generations are looking at gender in an entirely different way, and every time I watch interactions between my nieces and nephews I am in awe about what they accept as ‘normal’, and the way they interact with each other. It’s pretty awesome seeing such a big change happening, and the idea of gender being fluid becoming the new ‘normal.
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These people are front-runners in the journey to change the way we view gender, so Bravo to them.
Ruby Rose, the sexiest gender-fluid Aussie in the world greeted the crowd at the MTV EMAs by saying: “Ladies and gentlemen and everyone in between.”
Miley Cyrus, who obviously needs no introduction came out as gender-fluid and said to Time: “I’m just equal. I’m just even. It has nothing to do with any parts of me or how I dress or how I look. It’s literally just how I feel.”
Jaden Smith is pretty well known for challenging the rules of fashion, wearing skirts in public, and even wearing a dress to prom.
Tyler Ford, who is considered agender wrote a piece called “I am a Queer, Agender Person of Color in New York- And This is My Diary”. In it, Tyler said:
“We need to learn to extend kindness and respect to people whose experiences we may not immediately understand — or may never fully understand. I dream of a world in which everyone can be their authentic selves without being judged, mocked, criticized or disrespected. But for now — despite the everyday hardships — I still wouldn’t trade being me for anything.”
I don’t know about you, but I think its kind of cool to be living in a time where people that don’t necessarily fit into one box or another can be so public about their crusade?
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