Raegan Revord is opening up about their gender identity.
The 17-year-old Young Sheldon alum came out as non-binary at the start of this year, reveling their identity as a Twitch streamer and how they identify, using they/them pronouns.
In fact, they’ve been using those pronouns for even longer, though it wasn’t as known as their Twitch identity was kept mum until their big reveal in January.
Now, Raegan just released their debut novel “Rules for Fake Girlfriends,” which features a queer love story, and while promoting the book, they dished on what it means to them to live in their authentic self.
“It’s so cool because growing up, whenever I would see a celebrity or whoever come out as nonbinary or queer or anything, and I was like, ‘Oh my God, this is so cool, I see myself in you,’” they told Entertainment Tonight. “And now it’s so crazy to have that experience where I’m now that person and there might be a kid somewhere who’s like, ‘Oh my God, I see myself in you.’ And that’s such an insane thing ‘cause I was in that kid’s shoes at some point in my life.”
On the book being a queer, romantic comedy adventure, Raegan said it was quite important to have that representation in their book as that hasn’t existed much in the past.
“I think it’s super important to me, because I feel like, it’s crazy to say ‘growing up’ because I am only 17, but even in 2014 or whatever whenever I was getting more into reading, and broadening my horizons, reading stories, watching TV and stuff, there wasn’t a lot of queer representation,” they dished. “Even in 2014, ten years ago, which is crazy to say.”
You can pick up your own copy of Raegan Revord‘s new book “Rules for Fake Girlfriends” on Amazon now!
