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Infinite Genders by Livia Kallmeyer
Three insights by trans people about their trans Body and Gender experience in this society
So what are genders? What do they mean, and
how does it feel to not fit in traditional boxes? For sure there is still a lot of work to do to stop discrimination against those who don’t fit in and break the norms and standards of our society. So let’s find out how cis-people can be more supportive and real allies and see how this gender debate can actually help everyone.
Realizing you are trans
Being trans and starting to realize and finding
words for the feelings you are having can manifest differently and is not tied to a specific age. People can come out at 14 or 52 and every age before, after or in between. And no matter at which time people come out, they should be taken seriously because, as Mike says, people tend to think that, “If you are a teenager, you are too young to know. And if you are 30/40 years old nah too old for it“
To understand trans people we have to first Furthermore, every journey of a person to find understand, that our society assigns people a specific gender when they are born because of their biological sex. Meaning depending on which genitals you have (biological sex) society will treat and your parents will probably raise you in a different way. They will raise you with a gender of you in mind. In current western society that means as female or male. Gender is complex and influenced by society and culture. And not specifically determined by ones biological sex.
out about their gender is just as individual as humans are in general.
Iris, for example, said they heard about non-bi-
nary people on their first Pride of Thessaloniki as “In one of our seminars we were talking about gender and sexuality and when I heard about non binary people - that feels so warm, that feels so right to me and it was me. “
While Mike shared that he already felt that
something was off when they were really young 5 or 6 years old. And later on found his Now, let’s clarify what trans actually means. maybe own feelings especially reflected first in the inIt is an umbrella term for basically every per- ternet, which gave him the words to describe son that doesn´t identify with the gender they were assigned at birth.
I had the honour to talk to 3 amazing people about their relationship with their gender and society as part of the trans community.
Iris, 22 years old, non-binary, they/them Alex, 21 years old, non-binary, they/them Mike, 20 years old, transgender man, he/him
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