Since taking office in January 2025, President Trump's administration has pursued several executive orders aimed at restricting the recognition and rights of transgender individuals. These policies reflect his inaugural commitment to recognize only two genders—male and female—hindering the experiences of many transgender and nonbinary people. Interviews with nonbinary individuals reveal their resistance to binary gender classifications and highlight the societal importance of visibility and acceptance. Research continues to support the distinction between biological sex and gender as a social construct, advocating for a broader understanding of gender diversity.
The common element in each of these policies is a promise from Trump's inaugural speech that his administration would recognize only two genders: male and female.
All of the respondents are nonbinary. They do not want to be seen as the opposite sex from what they were assigned at birth; they do not feel they were "born in the wrong body."
Rather, they want to avoid being forced into the either/or labels that the categories "masculine" and "feminine" or "man" and "woman" entail.
Decades of research, some of it our own, have shown that sex and gender are different from one another.
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