Brigette Lundy-Paine, the 25-year-old actor best known for their role as Casey Gardner in Netflix’s Atypical, has come out as nonbinary.

They shared the news in an Instagram post on November 8. “I’m non-binary, always felt a lil bit boy, lil bit girl, lil bit neither,” Lundy-Paine wrote in the post’s caption. “using they/them as of late n it feels right. scary af to come out n been rly putting this off. But I feel I owe it to myself and to all of us who struggle w gender.”

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Lundy-Paine joins the small ranks of public figures who identify as nonbinary, including The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’s Lachlan Watson, The Fosters’ Tom Phelan, Billions’ Asia Kate Dillon, Queer Eye’s Jonathan Van Ness, The Politician’s Theo Germaine, singer Sam Smith, actor Amandla Stenberg, and rapper Angel Haze.

Lundy-Paine publicly came out as queer in 2018, though they had told their family before then. "I come from a very queer family," they said in an Advocate interview. "I think it was just like a teary phone call to my mom when I had my first girlfriend. And then after that it was kinda like, ‘Oh, I don't have to really tell anybody else. I just date who I want and not have to put up with it.’"

Atypical’s third season was released on Netflix earlier this month, which sees Lundy-Paine’s character Casey exploring her own queer sexuality with another character named Izzy. In a 2018 Vulture interview, Lundy-Paine expressed that they wanted to see more “nuanced examples of queerness on TV,” and that Casey’s story was an opportunity to “give the characters a chance to figure it out and flail.” It has yet to be announced if the show will be renewed for a fourth season.

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