The Times has covered this story, focusing more on the complexities of placing non-binary people into categories. Does it not follow that we will need 76+ categories to accommodate all the varying genders?
The story of how a woman who doesn't identify as a woman is nonetheless is happy to be up for a women's prize - from a guardian article: She said the judges were not aware of Emezi’s gender identity when they selected Freshwater, but they did check that Emezi was happy to be longlisted before the announcement
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bearded-non-binary-authors-have-eyes-on-womens-prize-08n77tkjs
Emezi has criticised the jury after one of the judges suggested that the novelist had been accepted into the award only because when the novel was published they had identified as female. Emezi said this was untrue and claimed that the judge, Arifa Akbar, was guilty of misgendering.
[...]The author’s selection and the subsequent fallout has prompted the organisers of the prize, first awarded in 1996, to “formulate a policy around gender fluid, transgender, non-binary writers to provide clarity” for its future.
Another non-binary, transgender writer, Vic Parsons, said it was clear that Emezi had only been included because at birth they were “assigned a female gender”. Parsons suggested that a novel would not have been allowed if written by someone who had once identified as a man. Parsons said that if non-binary people “who were assigned female at birth” were included, then non-binary people “who were assigned male at birth” must be. “That includes those of us who have beards, who are more masculine-presenting, and those who are more fem-presenting,” Parsons told BBC’s Radio 4’s Front Row. “If you are going to say non-binary, that absolutely has to include all non-binary people.”