Découverte de la non-binarité : le témoignage de Cami

Even if you don't get it,

You can be supportive
and be with us.

Our identity remains legitimate,

it's valid.

Testimonies
Non-binary gender

I'm Cami, 22 years old,
I'm non-binary,

I'm here to talk about
being non-binary.

"Non-binary" is an umbrella term.

It brings together all gender identities

that are neither only masculine

nor only feminine.

It could be agender,
"a" as in taking away,

without gender, neutral,

or it could be all fluid identities,

like when we imagine gender
as a spectrum with two poles,

one masculine one feminine,

and a slider that we can move,

for everyone who's gender fluid,

demigender, pangender, etc.

I never really self-identified
as feminine.

When I was 18, I already began

to explore my own
gender identity,

and I met a trans man,

I was with him for some time,

together we tried
to define my identity.

It turned out to be non-binary.

I think it's because

he was more informed than me

so he could help me find the words

to describe my identity.

Gender identity is part of who we are.

It's the gender that we feel,

that we live and experience.

Gender expression

is what we show other people,

it's the way we express this identity.

Someone can have a gender identity

that's, for example, masculine,

so they are a man,

and have a gender expression
that's feminine

with more traits
considered feminine in society.