Find your place. - EDIT 2022
Channel: Steffie
Date: 2022-11-27

This video was produced for the Edit Video Challenge 2022.

Content warnings: Conversations about gender, sexuality and mental health.

„Find your place.“ is intended to raise awareness of diversity in society.
Momo introduces herself and talks about events in her biography that were caused by her gender identity.

This video can be used in educational contexts such as classes or workshops with students. The target audience is mainly older pupils and adults. Shown at the beginning of a lesson it can form the basis for future conversations about the topic. 

By using this example students can gain easier emotional access to the topic. Those affected are no longer anonymous - now they have a face. 
Many thanks to Momo for her openness.


The footage produced to support the interview includes reenactments. 
The people shown in scenes other than Momo are not transgender. 



Definitions: 

Transgender: Describing or relating to people whose gender identity does not match the sex they were said to have at birth. 
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/transgender

Cisgender: Denoting or relating to a person whose sense of personal identity and gender corresponds with their birth sex. 
Transgender is the opposite. 
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/cisgender

Uterine transplant: A uterine transplant is a surgical procedure whereby a healthy uterus is transplanted into an organism of which the uterus is absent or diseased. The process is still fairly new. Find more information here:
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/uterus-transplants-allow-successful-pregnancies-us-women-study-2022-07-06/
https://www.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/en-de/das-klinikum/pressemeldungen/168


Helpline & Email support: 
https://www.lgbthotline.org/
https://tgeu.org/about-us/
https://transrightsmap.tgeu.org



Self-reflection:

What have you learned about being a boy or a girl?
What rules and norms were you taught regarding your gender?
When did you realize for the first time in your life that there are also non-heterosexual people?
What did you learn about transgender in school?
How did you learn your gender role?
Describe your earliest memory of this: When did you realize that lesbian, gay and transgender people were stigmatized and discriminated? 



Keywords can be found: Fall (01:01-01:04)
Hope (02:43-02:46)
Repurpose (03:03-03:10) 

Participants:
Momo (she/her)
Anastasia Babouchkina (she/her)
Lily Dreismickenbecker (she/her)
Lara Faber (she/her)
Stefanie Guckeisen (she/her)
Marc Trojahn (he/his)
Christine Weinberg (she her)


Production country: Germany
University: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Deutschland