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Even if you don’t understand,
you can still support and stand by us.
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Our identity is still real and valid.
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[Non-binary Stories]
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My name is Cami, I’m 22
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And I’m here to talk about
my non-binary identity.
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Non-binary is an umbrella term
for any gender identity
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that isn’t exclusively masculine
or exclusively feminine.
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That could be agender
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“a” indicating
the absence of gender
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which is neutral
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Or it could be a fluid identity.
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If we imagine gender
as a spectrum
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with two poles:
masculine and feminine
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A fluid identity might
move around that spectrum.
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This includes people who are gender fluid,
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demigender, pangender, etc.
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I never really identified with femininity.
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At 18, I was already
questioning my gender identity
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and I met a trans man
who I dated for a while.
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Together, we put my identity into words:
non-binary.
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I think that because he was
much more informed than me
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He was able to help me
find the words to describe my identity
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Gender identity is who you are.
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It’s the gender you feel,
that you live, that you experience.
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And gender expression
is what you present to the world.
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It’s the way you express your identity.
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For example, you could have
a masculine gender identity:
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So you’re a man,
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And your gender expression
could be feminine,
