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‘I am not a man,’ bearded TV guest insists in viral clip

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Bearded and with a masculine-sounding voice, the guest with the receding hairline on a French television show quickly takes exception to be identified as a man in  a video clip  that’s going viral. “You’re not a man?” the host asks in disbelief in French. “No. No. I don’t know why you’re saying I am a man. But I am not a man,” the guest replies. “Your appearance,” the host proffers. “Ah, well, we must not confuse gender expression with gender identity,” the individual continues. Put online only seven days ago, that short video clip – it’s less than two minutes in length – on YouTube has already been seen more than 232,000 times. It seems the guest identifies as “gender non-binary,” neither a man nor a woman. And even though that guest certainly appears to have light-coloured skin, he is equally quick to point out, when someone notes the panel on which the site is comprised of four Caucasians, that this too is apparently a mistaken perception. “I’...