I’m in my mid fifties and I have known that I’m nonbinary since before there was a word for it. I was a tomboy when I was a kid, and when I was a teenager we called being nonbinary “gender bending”. There was no internet and no general information (this was even before Section 28 came in).
I knew I was not a girl when I was a small child, even before I met my first gay friend who told me the term gender-bender.
The first known gender neutral person in modern history was Public Universal Friend in the 1700s.
There were loads of trans and nonbinary people in the 1800s — e.g., Dr James Barry (F to M), the Chevalière d’Éon (M to F) — in many different cultures. And also in the 1900s — e.g., Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore (1940s nonbinary lesbian artists), and many others.
We have always been here.
Further reading
Public Universal Friend – Wikipedia
Section 28 – Wikipedia
Gender bender – Wikipedia
Nonbinary – Wikipedia
James Barry – Wikipedia
Chevalière d’Éon – Wikipedia
Claude Cahun – Wikipedia
Marcel Moore – Wikipedia
Assigned Male Comics on Facebook
Dowsing for Divinity 
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