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    I was America's first nonbinary person. It was all a sham Archived Message

    Posted by margo on March 14, 2019, 1:51 pm

    Not saying I agree with everything this guy says but from a media analysis perspective the section where he describes +when+ the media paid attention to him - and when it did +not+ - is of interest.
    Article written by a former soldier haunted by childhood abuse and military-linked Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Jamie Shupe. Shupe retired from the Army with the rank of Sergeant. He previously identified as transgender and was the first American to obtain nonbinary status under law.
    Worth reading the full article if the subject matter is of interest.


    extracts
    Previous Message

    "Four years ago, I wrote about my decision to live as a woman in The New York Times, writing that I had wanted to live “authentically as the woman that I have always been,” and had “effectively traded my white male privilege to become one of America’s most hated minorities.”

    Three years ago, I decided that I was neither male nor female, but nonbinary — and made headlines after an Oregon judge agreed to let me identify as a third sex, not male or female.

    Now, I want to live again as the man that I am.

    I’m one of the lucky ones. Despite participating in medical transgenderism for six years, my body is still intact. Most people who desist from transgender identities after gender changes can’t say the same.

    But that’s not to say I got off scot-free. My psyche is eternally scarred, and I’ve got a host of health issues from the grand medical experiment.

    "Here’s how things began.... [...][..]" .../ longer article at link


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    Walking Away From Fiction

    [...][..] "It wasn’t until I came out against the sterilization and mutilation of gender-confused children and transgender military service members in 2017 that LGBT organizations stopped helping me. Most of the media retreated with them.

    Overnight, I went from being a liberal media darling to a conservative pariah.

    Both groups quickly began to realize that the transgender community had a runaway on their hands. Their solution was to completely ignore me and what my story had become. They also stopped acknowledging that I was behind the non-binary option that now exists in 11 states.

    The truth is that my sex change to non-binary was a medical and scientific fraud. ...."/ full article at link

    Daily Signal LINK https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/03/10/i-was-americas-first-non-binary-person-it-was-all-a-sham/

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    • I was America's first nonbinary person. It was all a sham - margo March 14, 2019, 1:51 pm