Even if you don't understand, you can always support and encourage us.
Our identity is still legalized and it exists.
My name's Cami, I'm 22, and I'm non-binary
and I'm here to talk about non-binary.
Non-binary is an umbrella term that includes all gender identities
that aren't only male or only female.
It can be agender so "a", subtracts,
and it means genderless, is neutral, or it can be all fluid identities,
as if gender is a spectrum with 2 poles, masculine and feminine.
We can have a cursor that moves.
Everyone who identifies as gender fluid, demigender, pangender, etc.
I never really identified with femininity.
At 18, I already started asking myself questions on my gender identity,
and I met a trans guy, who I was with for some time,
and we put into words my identity, which is non-binary.
I think it's because he had much more information than me
that he was able to help me find the words about my identity.
Gender identity is what we are.
It is the gender we feel, we live with and experiment with.
And Gender expression is what we let others see.
It is the way we express our identity.
We can have a gender identity
for example, male: we're a guy,
and we'll have a gender expression
that is feminine, with many labels considered feminine in society.
For example, Bilal Hassani is a man with a feminine gender expression.
I told my parents that I was non-binary
and that I wanted to change my first name at the same time.
I was 20, so it was two years ago.
My mom took it very well.
She was already familiar with gender issues.
She was very deconstructed to the idea and very safe.
I felt safe.
With my dad, it was a bit delicate.
I took more time to talk to him and I didn't do it in person.
I sent him a message because it was simpler for me to handle.