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Even if you don't understand,
you can still support and uplift us.
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Our identity, it continues
to be legitimate and it exists.
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I'm Cami,
I'm 22 years old, I'm non-binary,
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and I'm here to talk
about non-binary identities.
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Non-binary is an umbrella term
that includes all gender identities
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includes all gender identities
that are not exclusively masculine or
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exclusively feminine.
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So, it represents both agender,
"a" meaning subtraction,
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without gender, which is neutral and
also all the fluid gender identities
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like if we imagine gender as a spectrum
with two sides, masculine and feminine,
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and a cursor that moves.
So, all the people who are
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genderfluid, demigender, pangender, etc.
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I never really identified with femininity.
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When I was 18, I had already
started to ask myself questions
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about my gender identity and
I had met a trans man who I
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was with for some time and we were
able to put my identity into words
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which were non-binary.
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I think it's because he had
way more info than me,
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that he knew how to help find
the words for my identity.
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Gender identity is what we are.
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It's the gender we feel, live,
and experiment with
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and gender expression
is what we show others.
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It's how we express that identity.
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So, you could have,
for example, a gender identity
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that is masculine: so a man,
and you could have
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a gender expression that is feminine
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with a lot of markers
deemed to be feminine in society.
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Like Bilal Bassani,
who is a man with a feminine
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gender expression.
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I told my parents
I was non-binary and that
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I also wanted to change my name.
