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Who am I – and why is the answer so complicated?
Who am I actually, what gender do I feel like I belong to and why is that? These questions arise in star different people and take us on a search for identity
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In a new one starseries, we ask people from all walks of life what it means to them to be a woman or a man, to live as a trans person or to not feel like they belong to any gender. We set out to find what shapes our sense of gender.
There is hardly a day when we are not reminded of who we are or would like to be. Who we no longer want to be or never were. In the effort to create an equal society, we are called upon to examine our own gender identity more intensively than before. We are discussing gender-neutral language. We are fighting for equality. We are trying to recast old role models and have to realize that it is not easy.
Encourage each other, understand each other better
Since 2018 there have been more than two genders; the law distinguishes between male, female and diverse. In reality, our society has long been more diverse and our gender identities are more complex. They develop and change over the course of a lifetime. But how? When does someone feel female and when male? What does it mean for a genderfluid person whose gender identity is not fixed and changeable to move in an environment that follows two-gender, i.e. binary, structures?
In this series we look for what has shaped our sense of gender. Our origins, for example. Role models and experiences, including trauma. How do we live, how do we desire? Maybe, despite all our differences, we are more similar than we think. Maybe we can encourage each other. But we are definitely learning to understand each other better.
Told in the first episode of this star series Anastasia Biefang your history. For 40 years she was a man and felt trapped in her body. Today the 49-year-old lives as a trans woman.