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MPs Propose Legal Changes To Help Nonbinary People
Seven members of Parliament from the Pirate Party and the Reform Party have submitted a bill that would make a few changes to existing laws on Icelandic laws, gender registration, and the national treasury with the aim of making life easier for…
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Special Holiday For Nonbinary People In Iceland Today
You may have heard of bóndadagur and konadagur; now get ready for kváradagur, a holiday just for nonbinary people in Iceland. [su_pullquote]The Icelandic Easter Box! How about it? Easter is drawing closer! The beautiful celebration of resurrection and the beginning of spring!…
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University Student Launches Unique Demonstration For Gender Neutral Facilities
A queer activist and student at the University of Iceland—who has already made several formal appeals to the school for gender neutral bathrooms, in keeping with the university’s stated equality platform—has taken the initiative by attempting to place gender neutral markers on…
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Prime Minister Answers Question On How Many Genders There Are
Last July, chair of the Centre Party Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson formally asked Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir how many genders there are, and requested an answer in writing. Yesterday, he got one. Katrín cited the 2019 gender determination law, which unambiguously codified the…
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Being Nonbinary: In Iceland And Everywhere
The existence of nonbinary people is gaining slow but steady recognition in many Eurocentric countries—Iceland included. While we celebrate the fact that Iceland officially allows for a third legal gender marker—X—and has somewhat relaxed their naming laws, most of the challenges nonbinary…
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What’s In A Name? Nonbinary People In Iceland Finding Their Voice
Real Icelanders have real Icelandic names – they’re called Einar, Ingibjörg or Ólafur, but by no means Alex, Theo or Sheila. That’s the rule here in Iceland! And so that everyone adheres to this regulation, there is the Icelandic naming committee. This…
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Trans Iceland Criticises High Cost Of Gender Registration
In the wake of recent news that nonbinary people in Iceland can now register their correct gender with the National Registry, one wrinkle in this news has attracted the criticism of Trans Iceland: the cost. As reported, the passage of Iceland’s gender…
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Nonbinary Gender Registration Finally Opens In Iceland
About a year and a half since Iceland’s gender determination law established that people must be allowed to register their gender as nonbinary*, the National Registry has finally made that option available. Before the law was passed in June 2019, only two…
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A Queer Utopia? Examining The Gap Between The Law And The People
Iceland has a reputation, in many ways well-deserved, as a good place for queer people to live. While the country has definitely made great strides—especially when it comes to gay people—to ensure equal rights and fair treatment for queer Icelanders, thereis still…
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The Evolution of Gyða: On Music, Multiple Dimensions Of Love, And Our Collective Future
Gyða Valtýsdóttir could be at once described as a cellist, composer, artist and mystic but categories are something she feels are divisive. Over the course of our conversation, this is a recurring theme: not only has she evolved a great deal since…
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Icelandic Companies And Offices Reminded To Include Nonbinary Gender Registration
In accordance with a law on gender determination passed by Parliament over a year ago, Icelandic companies and offices now have six months to make changes to their registration systems, which includes providing gender options beyond just “male” or “female”. The initiative…
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Trans Icelandic Broad Cast #5 – Being Nonbinary
In this episode, Grapevine news editor Andie Sophia Fontaine talks with artist, witch and business owner Alda Villiljós about the concept of being nonbinary—a gender identity wherein a person is neither or not solely male or female. They talk about what it…
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Enter Galactic: Comic Artist Galactic Deer Sheds Light On The Reality Of Russian Queer Youth
Galactic Deer, a nonbinary artist originally from Russia who now lives in Iceland, is on a mission. Their new autobiographical comics series is, at first glance, very cute and charmingly drawn. But the issues it explores run deeper than this, and for…
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Iceland At The Intersection
There’s a lot more to Pride than being gay. Icelanders might be more accepting of trans, genderqueer and intersex people on a social level—everyone we spoke with said that this is so—but Iceland’s legislation still falls far behind other countries when it…