The Rebels

This chapter analyzes respondents called rebels because they challenge the gender structure at the individual, interactional, and ideological macro levels, as do the innovators. But they go further; they also reject the materiality of gender categories, the presentation of self as traditionally feminine or masculine. These rebels include self-identified genderqueer Millennials, transgender respondents, and others who do not reject identities but changes aspects of their bodies to better express their gendered selves. Many reject the notion of gender as a binary entirely, although most still identified their sex category as male or female even as they rejected a gender label as man or woman. These rebels are a category that seems to being created by Millennials themselves.