“Dear Ladies, Gentlemen, and …” – Change Your Gender Entry

How people treat each other is one thing – dehumanising bureaucratic institutions are something else entirely. Official correspondence is a very binary affair, even though Germany now officially recognises the third gender. This means that, according to §22 PStG, instead of a male or female gender, one can have a diverse gender entry, or even …

How to Come Out as Non-Binary Towards Friends/Family

It is nice to be recognised for who you are. Unfortunately, you have to expect that non-enbies will misunderstand what you mean by that. Not all enbies come out at all. If pronouns aren’t that important to you, you might not have to explain anything to the world. But if people really want to hear …

Language, Pronouns, Names – how Can we Talk About Ourselves?

The first problem when I want to explain to people what it’s like inside me is that the words are missing. “Something between man & woman” is about the first thing I could come up with, but that doesn’t really describe it well. “I’m an Enby” works quite well as a substitute for man/woman, even …