Dion Galea is the non-binary activist bringing trans awareness to the deaf community

“I am non-binary … It means I do not identify with either gender — man or woman. Sometimes, I am one or the other, both or neither of them.”

Dion Galea’s transition began the day they saw transgender activist Blake Culley sign these words in a YouTube video with the title: “What it’s like growing up deaf and trans.”

As the video went on, recognition set in.

“I thought, ‘That’s me. That’s exactly me.'”

At the time, Dion identified as a lesbian and had been married to a woman for six years.

Speaking to The Drum through an Auslan interpreter, Dion said the news they might be trans came as no surprise to their wife, who had been the one to first raise the…