(23 Apr 2016) A student came out as "non-binary" on Saturday during a televised town hall-style meeting with US President Barack Obama in London.
Maria Munir, a student at the University of York in northern England, told Obama: "I'm coming out to you as a non-binary person" - identifying as neither exclusively male nor female.
The student urged the British and US governments to "take us seriously as transgender people".
The president said he was "incredibly proud" of Munir for speaking out, and encouraged the questioner to "keep pushing".
Munir said afterward that "to be sat in front of the president of the United States, the leader of the free world, and to be able to pitch to him social action that I believe he can have a real influence on is something I will never be able to describe".
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