Dominique “SonicFox” McLean is a professional esports player and five-time Evolution Championship Series winner. He’s the highest-paid fighting game esports player in the world, raking in over $600,000 in earnings. He’s also gay. And, it turns out, non-binary.
On Tuesday, SonixFox tweeted: “I’ve been thinking critically about myself these last couple of months, and my entire life perspective on how I look. The more I reflect… the more this makes sense to me… I’m coming out as a Non-Binary Man.”
Hey ya’ll! I’ve been thinking critically about myself these last couple of months, and my entire life perspective on how I look. The more I reflect on my pass and likes the more this makes sense to me..
With that being said, I’m coming out as a Non-Binary Man!
(He/They) please!— FOX | SonicFox (@SonicFox5000) September 3, 2019
21-year-old SonicFox followed that up with a series of tweets going into further detail about his gender identity.
“I’ve always found myself enjoying things that were typically considered ‘not masculine,” he wrote. “I’ve always thought of myself as 50% masc and 50% feminine. But I always felt ridiculed and made fun of for liking the more ‘feminine’ things of life.”
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“The mens clothes section just never appealed to me … when I look at myself in the mirror and visualizing the ideal me, I keep seeing myself with this androgynous appearance. I was too nervous and shy to try women or “feminine” clothing … I am ready to conquer this shyness and start trying out new clothes and stuff that really feels like me.”
SonicFox went on to say that he goes by both “he” and “they” pronouns, but that could always change. Everything is fluid.
“In time I could see myself dropping the He/Him pronouns,” he explained. “I cannot tell if I am genderfluid or not, but I feel identifying as a cis-man just isn’t too right.”
“Hell even when I called myself gay for simplicity purposes, something always felt off about that as well. I’ll probably still continue to say I’m gay but in true hindsight, I think I am probably pansexual. Not sure yet. Sexuality and gender is confusing sometimes!”
Last year, SonicFox came out publicly as “super gay” while accepting the Esports Player of the Year award at the 2018 Game Awards.
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RIGay
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jayceecook
You cannot be Non-Binary AND a man/woman. Being Non-Binary means you do not identify as one of the binary genders, male/female. This is the problem with today’s youth and thier making up/redefining/co-opting of words. They end of creating paradoxical and ultimately meaningless identities. It also muddies sexual identity. If you’re non-bianry how can you be LGB? Pansexual, okay that makes sense.
I understand and agree that gender identity, expression, and sexuality can be fluid. Changing and growing as a person goes through life and gains experience. But calling yourself, for example, a Masc/Femme/Butch/Non-Binary/Genderfluid/Asexual Lesbian/Trans Man is just identity word salad.
LARRY
Fully knowing the hate that is going to come…but WTF? I identify as Larry….anything after that is my husband’s business and not another effing souls. I LOVE the kids of today but jesushchrist y’all making this old queer mans head hurt.
dali
Both non-binary and man at the same time? I’m soooooooooo confused right now!
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Thank you!!!
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
I truly believe that today’s youth are trying to be inclusive to shield some from hate….
However in attempting to be including, they are very confusing….
Kangol2
Didn’t he come out before? Or was there another Black/mixed/biracial gamer who came out, or made some kind of announcement about being gay or bi earlier this year? I think Queerty reported it too.
Back to being non-binary, he has the right to name and claim who he is, including being a non-binary person. Fixed that for you, young’un. Now do your thing!
skeldare
I’m not sure why people need to know this.
Bob LaBlah
I’m referred to as a dinosaur by many because I believe you are either strait or gay. To this day I don’t understand why these people whom were once called drag queens but now prefer to be called trans (some, not all) are reluctant or simply refuse to identify as gay but expect support from the gay community. I was raised on country sunshine and went to the big city to live for over thirty years but my values and upbringing stayed with me. Its best to know that side of the fence you belong on than to continuously reconstruct that fence until no one recognizes it. I’m still trying to figure out what a cis-gender is.
Kangol2
First, drag queens are not the same as trans people. A drag queen/king is a person of whatever sex and gender who likes to dress up in the clothing of the opposite sex or gender for entertainment purposes. A transvestite does it but not merely for entertainment, and usually maintains a primary cis-gender identity. A trans(-gender) person is someone who, at a deep psychological, emotional and physical level feels themselves to be a different gender identity from the sex they were assigned at birth.
Second, there are bisexual and pansexual people. Their orientations are not limited to desire with only the same or the opposite sex, or even same gender identity or opposite gender identity. There are also straight and gay people whose desires are more along the lines of queer, in that they might be attracted to more than simply the same sex or gender-identity (i.e., same gender–trans) but still primarily consider themselves gay and lesbian.
Cis = gender identity matches the sex that you were assigned at birth. So if you are not trans gender or gender-fluid, then you are probably cis-gender.
cliche guevara
This is super easy. You aren’t a dinosaur you are just wrong. As for understanding, the good news is that you don’t actually have to understand it and no one owes you an explanation about their gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation. All you need to worry about is yourself. If you are happy with however you identify, that is awesome. Now let others find their own happiness it has no impact on you so simply mind your own business or imaginary fence or whatever.
Bob LaBlah
@Kangol…..”First, drag queens are not the same as trans people.”
Dear, that may have been the case where YOU live but it wasn’t where I grew up and came back home to. This now weekly new label foolishness all began thanks to queens such as yourself who became hellbent to put the world in its place according to how THEY saw themselves (left out of the mainstream of all things gay). Once one queen got up on her soapbox and declared a new identity so many others followed that now the majority of us older queens not only do not attempt to follow but couldn’t care less about no matter how we are clearly being read when we voice our opinion about this confusion they must keep spreading. Dresses, high heel’s, bra’s and panties are one thing but the identity accompanying it has now become a sickening thing to hear. Not even Rand-McNally can map out what their destination is due to continuing self promotion. What good is a different label on each door of the local SRO when they are all living in the same crumbling building? Get my drift?
Kangol2
Miss Thing, I’m a gay man, and I can’t speak to your rural upbringing but whatever may have been the case there and then doesn’t obtain now, so, you know, why not adapt and grow? We don’t use rotary phones, or have milk delivered, or drive Chevy Novas anymore. But even if we did, I am not going to be placing other people in limiting boxes. Haven’t we had enough of that and hasn’t it taken its toll for centuries? YOU admitted you’re considered a dinosaur, and you clearly are expressing transphobia so just own it. Also, Dr. Renée Richards, a pioneering, iconic US trans woman, underwent her sexual reassignment surgery in 1975, and it was widely reported, so I know your drag queens pals weren’t confusing themselves with how she viewed her identity, were they? No. They were drag queens. Being trans is something qualitatively different. I mean, do you even know any trans people?
Bob LaBlah
Christine Jorgensen and Lucy Hicks were more the topic of the day rather than the publicity seeking Renee Richards. If you have a minute tell me what YOU think of ol’ Lucy Hicks and do you associate with her type (damn the trans part about her).