Découverte de la non-binarité : le témoignage de Cami

Even if you don’t understand, you can still

always support and stand by our

Identity, it remains valid, and it exists

My name is Camille, and I’m 22 years old.

I’m non-binary, and I’m here to

.talk to you about non-binary

Nonbinary is an umbrella term that

includes all gender identities

that are neither exclusively masculine nor

exclusively feminine, so it can

be agender, meaning a subtraction without

a gender that is neutral, or it can be

all fluid identities, as if one

imagined gender as a spectrum with

two poles, masculine and feminine, with

.a slider that moves across

So, all people who are

genderfluid, demigender, pangender, and

etc., I never really identified with

femininity. At 18, I already started

to ask myself questions

about my gender identity, and I have

met a trans man with whom

I was with for a while, and we

Were able to put words together for my

identity, which was therefore non-binary, and

I think it's because he had

much more information than I did

that he was able to help me find the words

regarding my identity. The identity of

gender is what we are, it is the

gender we feel, the one we live, the one that

we experience and the expression of

gender is what we will show to the world, what

to others, it is the way we will

express this identity, so we can

have a gender identity through

for example, masculine, so we are a man

and we will have a gender expression that

.will be feminine, with a lot of

markers considered feminine in

society, such as, for example, Bassani, who

is a man with an expression of

feminine gender expression. I announced to my

parents that I was non-binary and that

I wanted to change my name at the same time

I was 20 years old, so it was

years ago, and uh, my mom took it very well.

She was already very aware of the

gender issues, she was quite

deconstructed and very, very safe. I felt

safe. Uh, my dad, it was

a little more delicate. I took

a bit more time to talk to him about it, and

I didn't do it in person, I

sent him a message, actually, because

it was easier for me to manage, and he

reacted quite well. He said that he

didn't understand everything, but that, in any case

he would be there to support me

and that it didn't change anything for him, that he

loved me the same. As for my grandmother, it was

a little less obvious because

it was something that was very distant for her

from her, she grew up in the countryside

then she moved to Paris, she lived

with my grandfather for 50 years. She

was in very heteronormative patterns

where she had never questioned it

of her own identity or the identity of others.

So, when I told her, she

was a bit taken aback, but she always

made sure to behave in the same way, showing respect and