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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
    support and standy by us.
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    Our Identity is real
    and it exists
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    (Non-Binary Stories)
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    My name is Cami, I'm 22 years old,
    I am non-binary,
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    and i'm here to explain
    non-binary to you.
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    Non-binary,
    is an umbrella term
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    which includes
    all gender identities
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    that are neither
    exclusively male
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    or exclusively female.
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    It can be agender,
    the "a" meaning a subtraction
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    of gender
    or gender neutrality
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    or it can include
    all fluid identities.
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    Like if we imagine gender
    as a spectrum with two poles,
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    male and female.
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    You can have a moving cursor
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    that includes all people
    who are gender fluid,
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    demi-gender, pangender, etc.
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    I've never really identified
    with femininity.
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    At 18 years old, I already started
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    to ask questions
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    on my gender identity,
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    and I met a trans man
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    With whom I'd been with for a while,
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    and together we were able define
    my identity
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    which was non-binary.
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    I think it was due to him
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    having way more
    information than me
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    that helped me find the words
    to explain my identity.
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    Gender identity is about who you are,
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    the gender we feel,
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    that we live in,
    that we experience,
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    and gender expression,
    is what we show to others.
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    It's how we express this our identity.
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    It's possible to have a gender identity,
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    that's for example, male,
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    you are a man,
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    and then have a gender expression
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    that is feminine
    with many markers
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    society considers feminine.
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    Like for example,
    Bilal Hassan, is a man
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    with a feminine gender expression.
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    I came out to my parent
    as non-binary
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    and that I wanted
    to change my pronouns
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    at the same time.
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    I was 20, it was two years ago.
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    My mom took it well.
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    She was already well-versed in gender issues
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    She was quite casual and very safe,
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    I felt safe.
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    With my father,
    it was little trickier
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    it took me a little longer
    to tell him
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    and i didn't do it in person.
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    I sent him a text
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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 that
    he didn't understand it all,
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    but that in any case
    he'd be there for me
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    and that it changes nothing
    for him
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    and that he loved me all the same.
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    For my grandma, it wasn't as simple
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    as it was something
    very unfamiliar for her.
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    She grew up in the countryside,
    later moving to Paris.
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    She lived with my grandpa for 50 years.
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    She was in very
    cis-heteronormative social spaces
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    where she never had questioned
    her identity
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    or the identity of others.
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    When I told her,
    she was a bit taken aback,
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    but she always made sure and insisted that
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    She would act in the best way
    she could with me.
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    She puts in a lot of effort
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    She is hardly ever wrong anymore
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    in using my preferred pronouns.
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    I ma de a request to change
    my first name in 2019
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    I filed a request
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    to the town hall of where I lived.
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    I took a dossier
    which i had to fill with
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    with testimonies
    from those closest to me
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    to say that they were using
    the first name Cami
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    to address me.
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    I asked my school
    to write me a letter of support.
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    Then I submitted my application.
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    I had to wait a few months,
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    it differs by town hall.
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    And I received approval
    to change my first name.
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    The act of misgendering someone
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    entails addressing this person
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    with the wrong pronouns,
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    Therefore, gendering
    a non-binary person
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    who has explicitly said
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    use neutral pronouns
    like "iel" --(they?)
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    and or gendering them
    as male or female.
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    Me personally,
    I use feminine pronouns
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    when in conversation
    and neutral when written.
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    But it's true that in general
    I have a tendency to immediately verbalize
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    that I prefer to be addressed
    with female pronouns.
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    After, if the person
    doesn't say their own
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    and you want to be sure
    in gendering them correctly
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    you can ask for their pronouns
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    or wait for the person
    to gender themselves in front of you
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    so you follow their pronouns.
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    In my older videos,
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    There was lots of comments
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    that invalidated our identities,
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    denied our expressed gender
    and our gender identity.
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    Afterwards, I read very few
    of these comments
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    simply because I know
    for the most part,
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    They are malicious
    or very, very ignorant
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    and they will only cause me grief.
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    I was participated in a report (study?)
    in which it was said
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    that it was just a phase,
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    that it has just emerged
    in the United States over the last few years
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    that it was connected to fashion,
    unisex fashion, etc.
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    That is completely false.
    I also think it's
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    a super white
    and eurocentric point of view
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    because, in many cultures
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    there are many genders
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    that were totally erased
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    through colonization,
    to put it simply.
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    So often, we hear
    that this is problematic
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    and it's uncomfortable to put people
    in positions to identify, reidentify yourself, etc.
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    but I think it's super important
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    to be able to choose in the first place
    how we identify with something,
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    to unidentify with an identity
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    thats was assigned to us
    at random (arbitrarily).
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    I also think it's necessary
    to build a community,
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    to create a connection,
    to know you're not alone,
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    that there is support,
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    that there are other people
    who are just like us,
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    who understand us,
    who listens to us.
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    If I could only say one thing,
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    I think it would be
    that even if you don't understand,
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    you can alway support and stand by us.
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    You can learn
    you can deconstruct your ideologies,
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    You can relearn,
    you can help those close to you
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    even if you don't completely understand
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    the entire scope
    of their gender identity.
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    A second thing,
    is that all no-binary people
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    have a unique way
    of expressing their identity,
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    There are people
    who will do medical transitions,
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    those who will take hormones,
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    those who will have operations,
    others who won't
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    and that the method of transition or not
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    whether socially, medically, etc. does not matter
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    Our identity remains legitimate
    It exists
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    and there is many of us,
    so many.
Title:
Découverte de la non-binarité : le témoignage de Cami
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Video Language:
French
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