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Even if you don't understand,
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You can still suppport us.
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Our identity remains valid,
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and it exists.
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I'm Camille, I'm 22, I'm non-binary,
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and I'm here to talk to you about non-binarity.
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Non-binarity is an umbrella term
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which includes all gender identites
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that are neither exclusively masculine
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nor exclusively feminine.
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This can include a-gender identities-
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those that involve the absence of gender or a neutral gender-
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or this can include fluid identities,
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as if we imagined gender as a spectrum with two ends:
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Maculine and feminine.
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One may have a position on this spectrum that shifts.
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Including those who are genderfluid, demigender, pangender, etc.
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I never really identified with femininity.
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When I was 18,
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I started questioning my gender identity.
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And I met a trans man
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who I spent some time with
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and together, we found the right words to describe my identity-
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which is non-binary.
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I think that since he had much more information than I did,
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he was able to help me find the words
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regarding my identity.
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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 experiment,
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and gender expression
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is what we present to others,
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It's the way that we express this identity.
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So, one can have a gender identity,
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for example, masculine :
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So, one may be a man,
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and still have a gender expression that is feminine,
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with many markers considered feminine in society.
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For example, Bilal Hassani,
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who is a man with a feminine gender expression.
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I told my parents that I was non-binary
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and that I wanted to change my name
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at the same time.
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I was 20 years old,
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so it was two years ago.
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My mother took it very well;
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she was already well versed in gender issues.
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She was open-minded and very supportive.
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I felt safe.
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With my father, it was a bit more complicated.
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It took me longer to tell him,
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and I didn’t do it in person.
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I sent him a message actually,
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because it was easier for me to handle.
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He reacted fairly well,
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he said he didn’t understand everything, but that he would be there to support me
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and that it didn’t change anything for him
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and he still loved me the same.
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