It lets me explore a masculinity that is my own.ĭo you experience situations when you don't feel included? I also like to wear crop tops because it enhances my masculinity. For example, I'm not a heavy user of makeup, but I like to explore its possibilities. Yes, I like to create and I also feel like I'm constantly creating and evolving my gender expression. I also feel at home when I'm creating something. The vibe of the people I'm surrounded with is what makes it a home or not, and it doesn't depend on the place. Because when there is they will realise its importance and understand how much it hurts. Why is it so hard, and in most countries impossible, to get a passport with your real gender? A passport that states that you're non-binary? To me, that's just because there are not yet non-binary people in power. We can make much more informed decisions if we include a broad palette of different beliefs, cultural backgrounds and gender identities. It will make decisions that benefit men and not women. It works similarly with a government mostly made up of men. The traditional politician from a well-off and well-connected upper middle class will in most cases not be able to grasp what it's like to be poor and will take political decisions that affect poor people negatively. What do you think of when you hear the word inclusion?įrom a political point of view, I believe that you can't have real inclusion without a diversity of people taking the decisions. As a non-binary, I don't feel that I have to fit into a stereotype, I can just be myself. Being a man dictates what kind of body type I should strive for, who I'm allowed to have romantic or sexual relationships with, how my voice should sound and so on. To me, being identified as a man seems so restraining. That sounds just utterly weird to me.Ĭould you describe how it feels for you to define the way you do? What doesn't make sense is that the eight billion people on this planet should be able to fit into just two predefined groups on the opposite side of a spectrum. To me gender is a personal thing, you can identify in any way you want, and you can be whatever you want. I feel like the assigned identity I got at birth, being a man, it kind of fits me – but it for sure doesn't fit all of me. So how does this way of seeing gender affect you? But it's a personal thing and I can't speak for all non-binary people. I understand that most people see me as a man and personally I have no issue with that. Is it difficult when people don't recognise the way you identify? So non-binary isn't on a scale, it's outside of the spectrum. But I see it more like a triangle, with masculine, feminine and non-binary in different corners.

Some people see gender as a scale between masculine and feminine, and then non-binaries somewhere in between. I identify as non-binary and people have different views of what that is. I feel like if you were to describe me, my gender would be the least important aspect of who I am. I prefer to use they/them, but I don't vibe with the concept of having a gender identity at all.

The way i am