Non-binary man

Wikipedia records both compounds directly, noting that among Intersex people some identify as non-binary men or non-binary women, alongside those who identify as men, as women, or as non-binary alone. A national United Kingdom survey in 2017 found that of 1,980 intersex respondents, 38 per cent identified as women, 32 per cent as men and 25 per cent as non-binary.

What the compound actually claims

Non-binary is the umbrella for genders that are not exclusively male or female, and the compound uses the word exclusively. Healthline's account separates two experiences that both land under the umbrella: some non-binary people experience their gender as both man and woman, others as neither. The compound belongs to the first of those, and it files with the partial-connection terms because the question it answers is one of degree rather than of which category. A demiboy is partly a boy; a non-binary man holds manhood and non-binary status at once.

That is not the same move as claiming a whole gender that sits beside a familiar one, which is what Juxera does. Wikipedia notes the related habit of reaching for descriptors such as masculine woman or feminine man, which mark expression rather than a compound identity.

Philosophical work on the category makes room for the pairing. The norm-relevancy account developed by Katharine Jenkins defines a person's gender by which gendered norms they experience as relevant to them, and counts somebody as non-binary if elements of both the male and the female sets feel relevant, or if neither set does. On that reading a compound term is not a contradiction.

What the Gender Census actually counted

The Gender Census asks which words respondents accept for themselves rather than which single label they choose, so its figures are shares of acceptance. In 2022, among gender-diverse respondents, man was accepted by 12.1 per cent and woman by 10.7 per cent, while boy reached 14.7 per cent and girl 11.1 per cent. The diminutives outscored the adult words in both directions.

Those are shares of people who went looking for a gender survey and answered it. They are not shares of any general population, and they do not count people who wrote the compound out in full.

How the compound resists a date

Nothing on file dates the phrase. What can be dated is the vocabulary underneath it: Genderqueer appeared in queer zines in the 1980s and early 1990s and gained ground in the mid-1990s through activists including Riki Anne Wilchins, who used it in a 1995 Transexual Menace newsletter and in the 2002 anthology GenderQueer: Voices From Beyond the Sexual Binary. Non-binary itself was not in wide use until the early 2010s, when it overtook genderqueer as the usual umbrella. A compound built on it is necessarily later, and nobody has recorded a first use.

Some people object to the umbrella word on the ground that naming a binary reinforces it, which is an argument about the term rather than about the people using it, and it applies to the compound with the same force.

Where the pair overlaps with transgender

Wikipedia puts non-binary identities under the Transgender umbrella on the reasoning that non-binary people typically identify with a gender other than the sex assigned at birth, while noting that some do not consider themselves transgender. Healthline gives one of the reasons people give: distance from binary transgender communities where they have met hostility.