Although Lucy Hart identified as non-binary over the course of most of her career in porn, she says she rarely shared that part of herself within the industry. Instead, the performer and producer worked in the persona of a cis man who did “gender-bendy” things “like wearing fishnets” and getting pegged — until she came out as a trans woman in 2021.
Hart suspects some of her reticence to identify as non-binary in professional contexts stemmed from lingering discomfort with the term. Sure, it fit better than the male label she was assigned at birth, but it still didn’t match her actual gender. However, her decision to work under a cis male persona was also influenced by mainstream porn’s rigid presentation of gender.
