It's a social construct.
may be only 18 years old, but what the actor has to say about gender is wise beyond those teenage years.'s Most Beautiful People issue. "[Gender] can be pretty much whatever you want it to be," Amandla told the. "I tend to believe that gender as we've set it up in current-day society doesn't actually exist."
For Amandla, specifically, that means eschewing the use of female pronouns for the gender neutral they/them. "I've said before that I'm comfortable with using the pronouns 'they' or 'them' alongside 'she' and 'her' just because that's a conversation that's important to me," Amandla explained. "I don't necessarily always prescribe to female pronouns just because I don't think that pronouns are necessarily very meaningful.
Amandla has also been outspoken about sexual identity and the trouble with labels within the LGBTQ community. "I identify publicly as bisexual," Amandlato describe my sexuality. The thing is I use the wordjust because I feel like for people who don't necessarily know that vocabulary … it's easier to say I’m bi."
Amandla's willingness to be both vocal and open about gender pronoun usage and LGBTQ vocabulary, though, will only help to erase that confusion and lack of understanding.
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