Other awards shows, including the Independent Spirt Awards and the Gothams, have already updated their categories
For more than a decade, gender-neutral acting categories for award shows have slowly been gaining popularity. Beginning with the Grammys in 2012, numerous award shows have altered their verbiage from “Best Actor” to “Best Performer” as the slow rollout gained steam. Proponents of the switch are looking at a big picture of ending a gender binary that doesn’t really fit with today’s world, where most understand gender expression as existing on a spectrum rather than fixed binaries.
It was a problem that broke through to mainstream conversation with the FX series Pose, which saw its lead actor, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, become the first openly trans performer nominated in a lead acting category at the Emmys. Rodriguez was nominated as lead actress, but nonbinary actors don’t have the luxury of fitting neatly into those categories, such as Billions’ Asia Kate Dillon. “It’s erasure,” Dillion, who is nonbinary, told NPR in 2021.
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