Enby

//ˈɛnbi//

"Enby" in a Sentence (12 examples)

My friend, Alice, is an enby who feels neither like a male or female.

I'm just an enby going about their life.

"Tom identifies as plural, polyamorous, enby otherkin." "Oh, that's a pretty extreme combo even for the cutting-edge SJW standards." "Come on, don't be such a fuddy-duddy!" "I don't know. It sounds very strange to me. I should probably watch more Netflix and spend more time on Mastodon to get used to such stuff. By the way, does he also identify as nudist?" "I don't think it's technically possible." "Why not? Isn't it marginalized enough?" "Because they're also an ardent member of the furry fandom. You won't often see them without a costume."

i wish there was an nb equivalent to words like boys and girls / nb / enby / enbies

I doubt most wedding fair vendors would recognise an enby even if you carried an explanatory sign.

So, boys and girls and enbies, if the sex isn't good at or very near the beginning, the passage of time and/or muttering of vows isn't going to fix it.

'Ladies and enbies,' she said, the five foot three height requirement for pilots continued to mean that nearly all the human fighter pilots she had ever met were women or enbies. She could see no evidence before her that anything had changed. 'You might have heard of me, my call sign is Romeo,' she paused while the pilots giggled and sniggered.

He’d begun the day’s broadcast by rattling off a standard opening monologue: “Folks, we’re live and alive, and I hope all the boys, girls, and enbies”—nonbinary people—“are having a fantastic one.”

For non-binary-identified (or, to use my current favourite term, enby) people, this is magnified by the fact that while most of everyone except Germaine Greer and Donald Trump are prepared to recognise that trans people do exist these days, the enby population is still struggling up that hill with our glitter in the one hand and our neckties in the other.

You've campaigned for non-binary and gender non-conforming people at Newcastle for a while now, including winning Campaign of the Year last year for your Beyond The Binary Week when you served as Marginalised Genders Officer, and appearing on BBC3's web shows. Would you consider yourself an enby BNOC [big name on campus]?

"As an enby transgxrl, and an enbie lesbian, the lesbian community needs to show [more] validation towards those who are both non-binary and lesbians. […] I know that I am valid as a lesbian so I just don't let those views affect me, and the enby community needs to be welcoming of nb lesbians a[s] well," says Evee Sams, a lesbian, polyamorous, agender, trans gxrl.

The Bulls also are welcoming SWISH, a BIPOC basketball meet-up group that provides a space for queer women, trans and enby (non-binary) players to feel held, seen and valued.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.