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Age: 25
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Occupation: Actor and Model
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Pronouns: They/Them
Named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people, transgender and nonbinary actor and model Indya Moore champions the underrepresented. They've been open about their sex-work history, upbringing, and more, and have continued to use their platform to educate others about the transgender community with an unfiltered boldness that can only be admired. They also created a GoFundMe page to raise money for their community. On the page, Indya opens up more about their sexual identity.
Although they often present as femme, Indya identifies as nonbinary, which disrupts the construct surrounding gender. "Binaries force us into performative expectations that none of us purely live up to and when we choose to live outside of those expectations we experience violence, trans & gender variant people experience the worst kinds," they wrote. "Gender binaries aren't just harmful to people who are trans & queer they are harmful to all of us."
One way of Indya is advocating for the LGBTQ+ community is sharing the idea of a "gender jar" that their agents at Creative Artists Agency created to hold people accountable for using the wrong pronoun when discussing them. "The more you misgender people, the more you have to spend," they told The Hollywood Reporter.