"Phenix Kühnert wants more. More rights, more votes, more inclusivity. Social constructs? Divisions into "normal" and "different"? Let's throw it overboard. That's what Phenix fights for. Every day. She looks back to her childhood, reinterprets memories, writes about pain and acceptance. With it, we are allowed to sit in doctors' waiting rooms, open a passport that does not correspond to our gender, feel a hint of what this can trigger.
We are there when Phenix takes hormones for the first time, when her body begins to change, understand what shaving her legs has to do with emancipation. We accompany her through highs and lows, in sports changing rooms or on dates in Berlin.
Phenix lets us get very close to him, makes herself vulnerable, is gentle and determined. And: it shows why it is so important that we make equality great together.
"I don't identify as trans, I'm trans. I do not use the pronouns 'she/her', but my pronouns are 'she/her'. I've never decided to do that, it's always been like that. There is no date when I became trans. There was the moment when I admitted it to myself, and there was the moment when I decided to tell others. I was never a man, at birth I was assigned the male gender and I presented myself socially typically masculine.""
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