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Découverte de la non-binarité : le témoignage de Cami

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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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    With my grandmother, it was a little harder,
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    because it was something very foreign to her.
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    She grew up in the country, then moved to Paris,
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    She lived with my grandfather for 50 years.
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    She was part of a very cis-heteronormative framework
Title:
Découverte de la non-binarité : le témoignage de Cami
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Video Language:
French
Duration:
05:55

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