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Non-Binary Representation in Media
Is there a portrayal of a non-binary person in media that you particularly like?
It seems like the majority that I've experienced are either framed as a joke, or are side characters that aren't afforded the luxury of an arc.




I think the world is still struggling to wrap its mind around the idea of TRANS characters, which is still on the binary spectrum. I think we're very slowly getting there, but I think part of the reason there's not a lot of representation of non-binary characters is just because for so many audience members, it's such an unknown concept. It's a crappy excuse for not having non-binary characters, but I think the time is coming.
I haven't gotten around to reading it but I've heard very good things about the novel Ancillary Justice which uses a 'gender neutral she' for all characters and treats gender as irrelevant.
The gems (except Steven) in Steven Universe don't have genders but mostly present femme and use she/her pronouns. Stevonnie (Steven/Connie fusion) is a more clear-cut example of a non-binary character in the show and uses they/them pronouns.
I think in fiction it's especially hard to tease out who is binary—but non-conforming, non-binary—but binary conforming, and non-binary non-conforming especially when so many authors are resistant to non-binary pronouns. For instance, Tilda Swinton ID's as non-binary, uses she/her pronouns. In the upcoming film Doctor Strange she's going to be playing "The Ancient One" who is a male character in the original text. When you read an article saying "she doesn’t yet know if she will play the part as a man or a woman." you have to wonder whether that binary choice is coming from her or the author (its not a direct quote as far as I can tell). If she decides in her head to play the character as non-binary but the script keeps binary pronouns how would we know? If they use he/his will most people think it's 'a man played by a woman'? If they use she/her will people think they 'gender-swapped' that character? Self-identification is at the core of a person's gender and can be different from gender performance, conformity and how they get read by other people but with a fictional character all we have to go by is that outward presentation and only sometimes do we get a peak into their heads via the author. Is The Doctor on Dr Who non-binary? He's a time traveling space alien whose body reassembles itself periodically—on paper that seems like a good candidate but when that information exists only as back-story and not as something integral to the show which primarily has him present as pretty uniformly binary I don't know...
Bone Dance, by Emma Bull, has a nonbinary POV character. Some people treat Sparrow as male, and use he/him pronouns. Others treat Sparrow as female and use she/her pronouns. .
I second the Ancillary series (Ann Leckie). The POV character is an AI in a human body, for whom gender is pretty much irrelevant. The Radch society and language only uses she/her pronouns, regardless of a person's gender, so unless there are really obvious descriptive cues, or another language with more pronouns is referenced, you're really not certain what gender most of the characters are. I'm curious how this will play out in the proposed television adaptation, but it definitely works well in book format.
Creation Debt (Lore Graham, novella) has an agender robot (also a trans FTM character). (Content warning: explicit sex)
The web-comic Chaos Life has a nonbinary creator (who is also a character). The authors created the group Queeries here. Link to the comic: http://chaoslife.findchaos.com/
Those are what come to mind off the top of my head.