Where did you hear about non-binary genders?

Well I learnt about it from here, but that's probably not too useful...

Perhaps hearing someone say, 'There's only boys and girls, at least i think so anyway' and then they go and check it in like a library or something?

 

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex: But Were Afraid to Ask - found it in my parents basement when I was around 14ish, so I didn't feel like such a freak for liking both guys and gals... (!)

Everyone is unique.

 

Here and from Youtube videos

 

The internet, which will be the majority answer, unfortunately.

For what it's worth, though, when I started transitioning I had a sense (intuition, almost) that something still wasn't quite right attempting to live as a guy, or a binary one, at least. It felt just as forced as it did when I lived as female, and when I started researching non-binary genders (particularly genderqueer), things started to make sense again. Maybe you could incorporate your character having that sort of intuition.

 

Here

 

Through webcomics online, oddly. There's one done by an agender individual who described their experience in a comic. Another comic was a gender bender comic that more recently has been tackling transgender and non-binary identity a little.

I wouldn't be here if not for them, oddly.

 

I first learned about them on here. Somebody mentioned an identity and I gooogled it and learned from there

 

It was through tumblr that I first heard of it, but I met another person that was very...into "fads" on tumblr, like being transgender. They cruelly label these people as "transtrenders". She was excited when I told her about being genderfluid, and told me that she had never "met one in real life" before, so I assume that she heard about it through the Internet, too.

 

Video games or media, examples like Chrono Trigger's Flea and the princess from the Wizard of Oz cartoon come to mind.

Was always fascinated by such things, as well as displaying my own traits growing up.

It was a long arduous denial process, but through accumulated resources, time, and doing hormone research and looking at what estrogen gives and verbally saying "I want that stuff", and looking at what testosterone gives and going "I do not like that stuffs" was enough for me.

 

When I was a freshman in college, (before I started seriously questioning my own gender identity), I saw a flyer advertising some event or other at the queer community center on campus, and it mentioned something about genderqueer/nonbinary genders- I think that's when I first learned it was a thing.
I also heard on the news around the same time that some country (I want to say Australia, but I could be totally wrong) had passed a law that you could put an X on your passport if you did not want to be M or F, that they were legally recognizing other genders, so that may have been where I heard of it too.
Of course for further research I turned to the internet.

 

Rationalwiki.

 

My mom, actually. She read up on it and told me about it when I was about seven... I think she suspected something.

 

Through the internet when I was discovering my sexuality.

 

The internet