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Even if you are unfamiliar

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you can always follow along[br]and support us

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Our identity and existence[br]remains legitimate

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Non-Binarity[br]Cami's Testimony

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My name is Cami,[br]I am 22 years old and non-binary

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and I'm here to discuss [br]non-binary identity

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Non-binary is an umbrella term

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that includes many [br]genre identities

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that are neither[br]exclusively masculine

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nor exclusively feminine.

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Including, for instance, agender

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"A" meaning subtraction,[br]without gender or gender neutral

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Or, this can include[br]gender fluid identities.

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If we imagine gender as [br]a spectrum with two poles

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the masculine and[br]the feminine.

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We can imagine[br]a sliding scale.

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Including all the people[br]who are genderfluid

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demi-gender, pangender, etc.

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I never really identified[br]with femininity.

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By 18 I had already begun[br]to question

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regarding my gender identity

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then I met a trans man

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who I was with for some time

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and we began[br]to put my identity into words,

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which ended up being[br]non-binary

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I think it was because

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he had much more[br]information than me

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that he helped me [br]identify my identity in words.

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Gender identity is who we are

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It's the gender we feel,

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that we live and[br]that we experiment

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Gender expression is[br]what we show others

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It is how we express our identity.

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We can have a gender identity

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for example: masculine

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So, we are a man,

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we will have[br]an expression of gender

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that will be feminine

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with many signifiers [br]considered feminine in society.

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Like, for example,[br]Balil Hassani, who is a man

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with a feminine gender expression

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I came out to my parents as non-binary

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and that I wanted [br]to change pronouns

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at the same time.

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I was 20 years old,[br]it was two years ago

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My mother took it very well

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She was already very up-to-date[br]on the idea of gender

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She was understanding enough,[br]and very safe

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It made me feel secure.

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My father was a different story

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I put a little more time into [br]talking with him

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and I didn't

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in reality.

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I sent time a message in the end [br]because it was easier for me

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He received it well enough

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He said that[br]he didn't fully understand

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but he would still be there[br]to support me

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and it didn't change anything for him.

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For my grandmother, it wasn't as clear

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because it was very foreign to her.

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She grew up in the countryside, [br]before moving to Paris.

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She lived with my grandfather [br]for 50 years.

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She lived in very[br]cis hetero-normative regime

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where she never[br]posed questions about identity

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or the identity of others.

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So when I told her,[br]she was a little taken aback,

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but she had always tried [br]to act in a way

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that was best for me.

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She puts in enormous effort

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she doesn't struggle as much with[br]my preferred pronouns

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I filled a request to change [br]my first name

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in 2019.

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I filed a request

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with the city hall in my town

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I took a dossier which I had to fill

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with testimonies from[br]my close friends and familly

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stating they use the name Cami

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to address me.