Although identifying as neither male nor female is a slightly more modern and lesser occurrence, every non-binary person is valid nevertheless. Erasing their validation means erasing numerous lives from now and throughout the past. There are many examples of important historical non-binary figures. Jemima Wilkinson, for example, was an evangelist in the late eighteenth century who founded the “Society of Universal Friends.” After suffering from illness in the late 1770s, Wilkinson renamed them-self a variation of “Public Universal Friend” or “The Friend” according to different sources, and refused to use “she” or “he” pronouns. Since many, if not all sources refer to Friend with “she/her” pronouns, and their actual
