Opinion: Piers Morgan's calculated disdain is the daily reality for non-binary people like Sam Smith

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Opinion: Piers Morgan's calculated disdain is the daily reality for non-binary people like Sam Smith
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A lesson for media personalities. Being non-binary is about experiencing a profound sense of discomfort or displacement in the gender we were assigned at birth, and only finding solace when we stop trying to fit into the categories of man and woman

Smith’s experience has been a very public example of the mockery, humiliation, and threats, not to mention the very real violence we can face. It comes in the form of double-takes and raised eyebrows on the street, in changing rooms, and in public toilets. It comes in the form of verbal and sexual abuse, and in the curled fist of the man who told me he’d “take me outside and show me what he does to real men” when I tried to use the men’s bathroom.

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