Life as a transgendered norm breaker | Charlie Bech-Jansen | TEDxSSE
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- čas přidán 31. 07. 2017
- Charlie Bech-Jansen is a Swedish non-binary transgender person currently living in Stockholm and studying at SSE. Since they were young, Charlie has had a great interest in literature, and enjoys writing as a form of self-expression. They also like to wear and experiment with different Japanese street-style fashions as a way of exploring and questioning gender presenting.
Charlie came out as transgender at age seventeen, and has since been an active member of the LGBT+ community, participating in everything from Pride parades to political protests. It is something that has heavily influenced their daily interactions with other, cis-gendered people, as non-binary identities are still quite unknown in today’s society.
Charlie Bech-Jansen, born and raised in Stockholm. Came out as non-binary transgender at 17, has since been an active member of the Swedish LGBT+ society. Has previously studied literature, philosophy and astronomy, and is active in everything from Scout- to Japanese culture societies.
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Being a trans woman I have only met one non binary person, it's hard separating what you see from male or female and see just a person. I have to remember whoever I meet they have value,feelings, hopes, and dreams, and knowing them can make my life fuller.
Generally speaking...many people are worth knowing ... yes. But if they are blatantly or insidiously abusive ... not so much!
U had any medicalisation ? Hormones or surgeries ?
For someone born and raised in Sweden, Charlie speaks remarkably good English---without a drop of dialect or accent.
Lack of an accent is not indicative of speaking "good" English.
An accent is not something someone has control over. I know plenty of people who speak excellent English but happen to have an accent.
@@cactuscallie5090 All I was saying is that Charlie sounds like a native, American-English speaker. Yes, some people who speak English as a 2nd language have a very good command of English grammar and vocabulary, but still speak with a foreign accent. However, many people CAN and DO eliminate their accent or dialect, if they are determined to: same with any second language. Actors are the first that come to mind.
"We need a society where you can be different and that is okay." (14:35) That's the spirit! =)
I dont understand but will listen
@Lillian Bishop I was raised to live and ; Let live ; Its not that I need to know, giving respect has always worked
Thank you
That's a good mentality to have and honestly more people should adopt it.
"I got bullied for acting different". Different isn't broken and different doesn't need fixing.
Absolutely well spoken Charlie! I don't know if you will ever see this, but I just want to say this. Thank you for choosing to pick up the saw and begin to carve your own hole, as you so well put it, for being a role model for future transgenders (like myself) to look up to, giving confidence to let us express and be ourself, being happy in our ''differentiality''. Thank you for everything you have done, the tough battle you have fought for yourself, for us all! Thank you taking a stand, breaking through the norms, greatful to you, of your story and decisions.
Beautiful amazing impressive courageous soul. Only way to educate society is by being open and announcing at great event as these to increase awareness. Inspiring. Thank you, bless you. All your dreams come true.
Way to go. I think as we get older we stand up for racism, etc...but I DO think that men tend to just go along with the joke and not speak up even if they didn't really care for it
I think that's the power of peer pressure, so nearly everyone experiences that at some point.
You are actually the best
You are beautiful inside and out. Way to go beautiful person.
Great talk, very important topic.
Being non binary I think people like your friends would invite you to ALL things. Boy or girl...they shouldn't be separated anyway
So proud of you!
Thank You!
😙
Charlie is a fighter.
Well said: We are groomed ...
And the whole time in the introduction you somehow expect something like "I did not like to be groomed" but then surprise strikes.
Your experience as a kid is totally unbearable. It is so awful to hear how a kid can be bullied.
The widespread unisex-thinking of the 1960ies was perhaps not so silly.
Very god talk. Congratulations!
Great talk Charlie. it helps me to be me tank you!
Charlie looks striking similar too Chloë Grace Moretz the girl from the movie Kickass aka hit girl D:
beautiful ‼
How are you breaking norms if you exclude yourself from the group the norms apply to? You just created a new category. You are now behaving according to the norms of this new category. As a woman, I am so disappointed. You are narrowing my category - woman - to certain stereotypical behaviors. For your information: I was also not the "typical girl" and I'm still not; I also stayed at home and read books instead of parting and socializing. It's called being an introvert. My thinking is more analytical, I hate shopping, I hate dressing up and putting on makeup - which is why my face are always makeup free. I am almost flat-chesed. I am also very much a woman. Do you know why? Because I was born with a female body and all my socializing since birth was that of a girl, woman, female. That's all to it. You don't have to act a certain way or be a certain way to be a girl or a woman. If society treat you differently because of it, it means society is wrong, not that you are not a girl or a woman. I am so disappointed with this generation. You are ruining everything women tried to free themselves from years ago.
Absolutely
Have you had a baby how would you determine his gender at birth, do you know another way to do it, isn't this point of view of yours a little childish? Also forcing people to accept you isn't this a bit contradictory since were talking about free speech, liberty of self being. Be whatever you wanna be, I don't care, stop trying to convince people. Also the more you will try the more hate speech it'll generate, be cool live and let live.
Kids have always been bullied. It makes them stronger.
No. It scarred them mentally and even led to suicide.
Stop (: