 Hi, my name is Allie. I am a sapphic non-binary person and I'm gonna talk to you about my experiences of being LGBT I'm super excited What it means to be non-binary. Oh, okay. This is a big topic It literally just means I don't identify myself as a man or a woman. I started off as a drag king I was putting on a beard. I was binding my chest. I was wearing suits I found that a lot of the time when I would change out of drag and Turn back into Allie. I I felt very dysphoric My first thought was that I must be a trans man and I for a while asked my friends to call me He-him pronouns. It didn't feel right because I also enjoy feminine things and I enjoy presenting female at other times I came to the conclusion Non-binary I must be somewhere in the middle of the tube. People say, oh Allie, you have long hair You wear dresses you enjoy makeup. So therefore You must be a cis woman This is not correct. The reason for that is not because I have a vagina. They're not correlating they don't Then they're not related to one another and that's the thing that people don't get for me that like the whole beauty of being Non-binary is that I'm not putting myself in a box and I'm not labelling myself as this thing something that people coming out for the first time should understand is that you shouldn't get mad at people for not Understanding your identity. The likelihood is is that they were never taught about it. I was never taught about it It's your job to make them understand what it means to be you after a long time of Trying to explain and help them understand. I think my parents do get it now I'm really glad that I took the time to try and educate them because I managed to salvage a relationship My gender identity is Something that is really personal to me. It is more for myself than it is for other people I would recommend exploring As many identities as possible if you're unsure about who you are and how you identify It was a great experience for me to get people to call me he him for a while It helped me discover that that wasn't how I identified and who knows I might change in the future I view my gender as being pretty fluid It can be something that you explore for the rest of your life if you want I found this label of non-binary and I'm comfortable with it and it describes me pretty well