Random Celebrities Who Have Defied Gender Stereotypes (23 items)

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  (#12) Amber Liu

  • 1992-09-18

  K-pop star Amber Liu is known for her tomboy clothing. The singer, who sports short and boyish hair, usually wears shorts, t-shirts, and sneakers on stage. Part of the reason for Liu's style is practical. She grew up playing sports and needed looser clothing for mobility reasons. However, she also says she dresses the way she does to be unique and send her female fans the message they can dress however they want. 
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  (#6) Miley Cyrus

  • 1992-11-23

  In an interview with Paper Magazine in 2015, Miley Cyrus said, "I don't relate to being a boy or a girl, and I don't have to have my partner relate to being a boy or a girl."

  Though she still seems comfortable with she/her pronouns, Cyrus has been experimenting with gender ambiguous presentation for awhile now. She made headlines back in 2015 when she appeared at an amFAR event with agender model and poet Tyler Ford as her date and used the event as an opportunity to raise awareness about non-binary gender identities. In 2019, Vanity Fair reported Cyrus explaining: "What I preach is: People fall in love with people, not gender, not looks, not whatever. What I’m in love with exists on almost a spiritual level. It has nothing to do with sexuality. Relationships and partnerships in a new generation—I don’t think they have so much to do with sexuality or gender. Sex is actually a small part, and gender is a very small, almost irrelevant part of relationships.”
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  (#7) JD Samson

  • 1978-08-04

  A member of the lesbian synthpop groups Le Tigre and MEN, JD Samson was assigned female at birth and prefers female pronouns.

  Samson spoke about her identity with Archer magazine in 2016:

  I think my identity, or the words that I choose, vary a bit – but I would identify as a woman, as a lesbian and as a queer person, and also as genderqueer. Sometimes that word doesn’t feel exactly perfect to me; it’s the one that comes out of my mouth most often when describing my non-binary gender expressions.
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  (#20) Rae Spoon

  • 1982-01-01

  Canadian author and singer-songwriter Rae Spoon lived for several years as a transgender man before going public with a campaign to promote the singular pronoun "they" alongside cartoonist Elisha Lim. Spoon collaborated with author Ivan Coyote on the short story collection Gender Failure, and Spoon's latest album is Mental Health.

  In an interview with Now Magazine, Spoon said, "I think the 'they' pronoun is a pretty cool thing. It's letting a lot of people not have to identify as a man or a woman. Whatever it means to them."
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  (#11) Genesis P-Orridge

  • 1950-02-22

  Genesis P-Orridge has since passed away in March 2020.
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  (#15) Tilda Swinton

  • 1960-11-05

  Swinton's public presentation is decidedly androgynous. She also gravitates toward non-binary characters, e.g. her roles in Orlando and Constantine.

  In interviews, Swinton has stated in 2009, "I don't know if I could ever really say that I was a girl - I was kind of a boy for a long time. I don't know, who knows? It changes." She concedes, however, as an adult, "I am probably a woman."

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