11 nonbinary trailblazers to know for Nonbinary Awareness Week

Nonbinary people, who are neither exclusively male nor female, have gained increasing visibility in entertainment, sports, politics and beyond.

An estimated 1.2 million people, or 11% of LGBTQ adults in the U.S., are nonbinary, according to 2021 research by the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law. Younger people are more likely to identify as nonbinary, according to Pew Research Center data released in 2022, which found that 5.1% of adults younger than 30 are transgender or nonbinary, including 2% who are a trans man or trans woman and 3% who are nonbinary. Among 30- to 49-year-olds, 1.6% are trans or nonbinary, and among those 50 and older, 0.3% are trans or nonbinary.