Even if you don't understand
You can still support and standy by us.
Our Identity is real
and it exists.
(Non-Binary Stories)
My name is Cami, I am 22 years old, I am non-binary,
and i'm here to explain non-binary to you.
Non-binary, is an umbrella term
which includes all gender identities
that are neither exclusively male
or exclusively female.
It can be agender, the "a" meaning a subtraction
of gender or gender neutrality
or it can include all fluid identities.
Like if we imagine gender as a spectrum with two poles,
male and female.
You can have a moving cursor
that includes all people who are gender fluid,
demi-gender, pangender, etc.
I've never really identified with femininity.
At 18 years old, I already started
to ask questions
on my gender identity,
and I met a trans man
With whom I'd been with for a while,
and together we were able define my identity
which was non-binary.
I think it was due to him
having way more information than me
that helped me find the words to explain my identity.
Gender identity is about who you are,
the gender we feel,
that we live in, that we experience,
and gender expression, is what we show to others.
It's how we express this our identity.
It's possible to have a gender identity,
that's for example, male,
you are a man,
and then have a gender expression
that is feminine with many markers
society considers feminine.
Like for example, Bilal Hassan, is a man
with a feminine gender expression.