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Julia feels sad because people keep calling her Julia.

She wants to be called Julian.

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“Because Julia is a girl’s name and I’m not a little girl,” says Julia. “I’ve never felt like a girl, but everyone thinks I’m a little girl.”

Julia/Julian, who’s a puppet, then tells her friend Alex, a woman who’s not a puppet, that she wants to have her hair cut off.

“And I don’t want to wear dresses or girls’ clothes any more,” adds Julia/Julian.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C4L7kjvKaQ&t=9s

This encounter takes places in the first of three videos that the Jasmin Roy Sophie Desmarais Foundation launched at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts on Wednesday. The three videos, in English and French, are available at fondationjasminroy.com.

By the second video, Julia has been transformed into Julian, with short hair and a striped T-shirt and no dresses in sight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L27nIHmAPcU&t=54s