Comedian Ilana Glazer comes out as nonbinary

That better understanding of self goes deep, with Glazer now understanding herself to be a "nonbinary woman." It was their pregnancy to their now 3-year-old daughter that brought these feelings to the surface, even though, "Being pregnant on paper was the most female thing I could ever do," she says, "but it actually highlighted both the masculine and feminine inside of me." Glazer is just one of many nonbinary people and trans men who have spoken in recent years about the experience of being pregnant while transgender, and what that's like to navigate internally and externally.

“For so long, my masculinity felt like something I had to hide or make a joke of," explains Glazer, continuing, "and my femininity was something that felt like drag. There was always this element of comedy to it that was limiting my genuine personal experience,” they say. It was pregnancy that allowed themself to embrace their whole, complete being without caveat or comedy. “This gift of being pregnant made space for me to be real with myself.”

Lastly, Glazer is asked if it's changed much day-to-day for them to put a name to her identity. “It’s more a point in the process of a long journey of self-actualization," they say. "I’m moving through the world in a way that’s truer.”