![Nonbinary person complains of being asked, 'Are you a boy or a girl?' during haircuts, being forced into 'female or male' boxes. Reaction is brutal.](https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=22777586&width=1245&height=700&quality=85&coordinates=0%2C22%2C0%2C23)
Image source: Twitter video screenshot
'Could you just cut our f***ing hair?'
A nonbinary person was featured in a video earlier this month sharing the struggles of getting a "simple" haircut when those providing the service ask, "Are you a boy or a girl?" and also being forced to fit into society's "female or male" boxes.
The unnamed person — who appears courtesy of BBC Scotland — complains that "I'm more of that 'other' (if that's even an option) like I'm some thing on the outside existing beside the world as it rolls by all pink and blue."
Image source: Twitter video screenshot
The individual also shares that usually there are two options when it comes to a haircut: There's a salon, which oozes "that womanly world of perfumed femininity with which I feel like I have little affinity." Then there's the barber shop, "which isn't much better since this voice and these swells in my chest make me feel like an infiltrator."
The speaker adds that those providing haircuts often ask, "Are you a boy or a girl?" and "Am I trans, am I gay, and I don't know what to say. Sometimes I pick my labels to make other people feel OK, but it's never enough to say where I'd like to be trimmed or shaved ... they need to know my sex."
Image source: Twitter video screenshot
The person notes that haircutters say it's the only way they can determine the appropriate rate, as women's haircuts are typically more expensive than men's.
The individual sounds a tad hopeful in the end, noting that in the last few years "drag queens" and "out queer celebrities" have made a big splash upon culture — and then finishes things off with a bang: "We're queer, and we're here ... could you just cut our f***ing hair?"
A number of Twitter users didn't hold back their contempt for the nonbinary person's complaints:
Oh, and this one:
(H/T: Louder With Crowder)