{"id":3104,"date":"2025-07-14T16:25:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T16:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comprodiverso.com\/?p=3104"},"modified":"2025-07-15T20:10:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T20:10:00","slug":"international-day-of-non-binary-people-july-14th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comprodiverso.com\/en\/ephemerides\/international-day-of-non-binary-people-july-14th\/","title":{"rendered":"International Day of Non-Binary People (July 14)"},"content":{"rendered":"

To know and celebrate July 14 as the International Day of Non-Binary People we give you these facts about this sector of the population and what you have to take into account.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Also known as the International Non-Binary Visibility Day<\/strong>the July 14 marks International Day of Non-Binary People <\/strong>since 2012, according to the Asociaci\u00f3n Familias Diversas Argentina (AFDA). The selection of this date corresponds to the intermediate period between the International Women's Day<\/strong> (March 8<\/strong>) and the International Men's Day<\/strong> (November 19<\/strong>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A non-binary person does not identify with his or her gender assigned at birth. <\/strong>In this sense, 'non-binary' is an umbrella term under which different gender identities exist.<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What does it mean to be a non-binary person?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

'Non-binary person', 'non-binary gendered' or 'non-binarie'.<\/strong> <\/em><\/strong>are umbrella terms used to describe identities that fall outside the gender binarism. <\/strong>In other words, they do not identify as either male or female. This The set of identities also falls under the spectrum of trans identities.<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being a non-binary person means questioning and breaking the binary gender system and biological determinism on a daily basis.<\/strong> For this reason, the importance of this date derives from the slogans from which non-binary people remember that the systems of identification and thought are insufficient to vindicate their existence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As explained by Lou Himes<\/strong> -who specializes in psychology and identifies herself as a non-binary person, non-binary individuals do not operate in socially constructed systems that privilege the idea that there are only two categories of gender experience<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being a non-binary person can be expressed in ways as diverse as there are humans in the world, for example, as fluid gender<\/strong>, genre<\/strong> o genderqueer<\/em><\/strong>. <\/em>There are other people who always feel in the middle of the spectrum<\/strong> and others experience it more as a mix between masculine and feminine<\/strong>. In addition, some feel more comfortable at one end of the binarism than the other.<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Language is an important element in the visibility of non-binary people.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The doctor C\u00e9sar Torres Cruz<\/strong> (Center for Research and Gender Studies, UNAM<\/strong>) states that the position of non-binary people \"goes beyond clothing\".<\/strong>. Non-binary identities are claimed through the political use of language.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Specialists such as linguist Santiago Kalinowsky<\/strong> (Argentine Academy of Letters), Professor of Language and Literature, Professor of Language and Literature Romina Mc Cormack<\/strong> and the journalist Florencia Alcaraz<\/strong> point out that non-binary language is an \"intervention of public discourse\".<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to \"creating awareness of the persistence of a social injustice\", it makes linguistic strategies visible to avoid falling into racist, misogynist, classist, xenophobic, and capacist expressions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this sense, one of the linguistic manifestations that show the importance of the claim for a non-binary language is the misgendering, understood as the violent and usually intentional action of denying a person's gender identity<\/strong>. <\/strong>This can be manifested through the incorrect use of pronouns<\/strong> or in the refusal to recognize the first name with which a person feels comfortable. This refusal is one of the most common forms of violence for those who do not identify, recognize or politically pronounce themselves with gender binarism.<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Why is it important to make non-binary people visible?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The The importance of the International Day of Non-Binary People lies in the struggle that this sector of the population has led to demand their material recognition.<\/strong>for their right to have official documentation that validates them as part of a citizenship<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mexico is one of the Latin American countries where the recognition of non-binary identity is a fact through documents.<\/strong> as the CURP, birth certificate, passport and voting credential<\/strong>. Although the way to manifest that it is a non-binary identity is still a subject of debate and susceptible to improvements that better represent the wishes of the population, it is a reality that a non-binary person can access the modification of their official documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the most important battles for non-binary people has to do with the Respect for their identity in the educational and work environment.<\/strong>. More and more people are demanding that their universities and workplaces display the non-binary person option in your documents<\/strong> interns<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Symbols to get to know the non-binary population<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The non-binary flag was designed in 2014 by. Kye Rowan in order to have its own symbol to delimit the particularities among people who identify themselves as non-binary.<\/strong>. Their colors and meanings are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n