At just 13 years old, Anaïs (1) refuses to be “
locked up
” in a gender identity. As a family, the subject came to the table one spring evening, at dinner. Without warning, the teenager declares that she wants to go to Gay Pride, now renamed the Pride March.
"But… do you think you're gay?" You never told us about it! ”
exclaims his father, Victor. Astonished, the Parisian forty-something, creator of a design agency, then said he was ready to welcome a coming out with kindness.
"But you're so has been!" How can you ask this question in 2021?
, annoys the teenager, a fifth-grader in a Catholic college in central Paris.
It has nothing to do. I am gender fluid. ”
Either a person who is not characterized by a fixed gender, but who will vary over time.
In one retort, Victor's daughter had just pulverized his thought patterns.
He, the papa hen, so attentive to his children, felt he belonged to another world.
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