Summary
In communities around the globe, genderqueer, gender-variant and gender-fluid people are rejecting the categories of male and female, and attempting to re-define gender identity. Linda Pressly asks if being non-binary breaks the last identity taboo, and explores the challenges it creates for the law, society and conventional concepts about the very nature of gender. Producer: Lucy Proctor (Photo: Pips Bunce, the global head of Fixed Income & Derivatives IT engineering at Credit Suisse, who identifies as gender-fluid, or gender-variant).
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks for downloading this program from the BBC. |
| 0:02.8 | In the words of Cool and the Gang, |
| 0:04.4 | Celebrate Good Times. Analysis is back. |
| 0:07.2 | In the first in a new series of analysis, |
| 0:09.8 | Linda Presley examines the new frontier |
| 0:12.0 | when it comes to defining gender. |
| 0:15.0 | Meet Finn. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm non-binary and I use the pronouns they and them. |
| 0:23.0 | And a lock. |
| 0:24.0 | I identify as non-binary. |
| 0:27.0 | I am neither a man nor a woman. |
| 0:30.0 | Whoa, I can hear you thinking, what's going on? |
| 0:33.6 | Well, Finn and a lock both identify as non-binary. |
| 0:37.4 | That's their gender identity, not their physical sex. |
| 0:40.8 | The gender binary refers to the idea there are only two genders, male and female. |
| 0:49.0 | People who are non-binary feel they fall outside those male female man-woman categories. They also might identify |
| 0:56.2 | as transgender and a lock and fin aren't just lonely voices in the wilderness. |
| 1:02.0 | I am gender queer or non-binary or agender. I move |
| 1:07.0 | through the world as myself. I identify as a non-binary trans person. |
| 1:14.0 | I identify as intersex, queer. |
| 1:18.0 | The language gets complicated. |
| 1:21.0 | Queer, gender-queer, gender-fluid, gender-, gender variant, third gender, |
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