#Jamie shupe

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Non Binary là gì? Người phi nhị giới có những đặc điểm gì?

Non Binary hay phi nhị giới, phi nhị nguyên giới là khái niệm dùng để chỉ người có trạng thái tâm lý xã hội đặc biệt, tự nhìn nhận bản thân không phải là nam và cũng không phải là nữ. Vậy bạn hiểu Non Binary là gì? Đặc điểm? Cách ủng hộ Non Binary là gì? Hãy cùng chúng tôi tìm hiểu về cộng đồng những người thuộc giới tính này nhé!

Non Binary là gì?

Khái niệm Non-binary chính là nhóm người mang bản sắc giới (nhận thức của một người về giới tính của bản thân) không chỉ bao gồm nam hoặc nữ mà họ còn nhìn nhận bản thân thuộc về một giới khác, có thể là sự kết hợp giữa nam hoặc nữ, ở lưng chừng hoặc thậm chí là nằm ngoài hai giới tính trên.

Non Binary - người phi nhị giới Bên cạnh đó, Non-binary còn là thuật ngữ bao trùm nhiều từ ngữ khác nhau nhằm để miêu tả bản sắc giới ở người thuộc nhóm này, chẳng hạn như: Agender: Đôi khi được sử dụng thay thế cho thuật ngữ trung tính hoặc phi giới. Bigender: Sở hữu 2 bản dạng giới riêng biệt. Genderqueer: Sử dụng cho những người có bản dạng giới không thuộc phi nhị giới. Genderfluid: Linh động giữa hai hoặc là nhiều bản dạng giới. Thực tế thì có nhiều sự nhầm lẫn giữa các thuật ngữ giới tính và trong đó phổ biến nhất là chuyển giới và phi nhị giới. Bạn cần hiểu rằng, người chuyển giới sẽ vẫn thuộc hệ nhị phân giới tính, tức là họ tự đánh dấu bản thân là nam hoặc nữ. Trong khi nhóm phi nhị giới thì lại không thuộc bất kỳ giới tính nào của hệ nhị phân, thậm chí giới tính của họ còn có thể thay đổi một cách linh động theo thời gian. Do đó người chuyển giới và người phi nhị giới thì đều có bản sắc giới không giống với giới tính sinh học, nhưng vẫn có sự khác biệt rõ nét giữa 2 nhóm cộng đồng này. Lịch sử hình thành  Từ xa xưa thì xã hội loài người chỉ công nhận 2 giới tính duy nhất đó là nam và nữ, được gọi là “hệ nhị nguyên giới”. Còn những người phi nhị nguyên giới không thuộc về hai giới tính cơ bản trên nên sẽ được gọi là “phi nhị nguyên giới”. Trong đó, “phi” có nghĩa là không, còn “nhị nguyên giới” tức là hai giới tính sinh học được xã hội chấp nhận. Lý giải về lịch sử hình thành của người phi nhị giới thì có rất nhiều tài liệu cho thấy rằng giới ngoài hệ nhị phân đã tồn tại trong suốt lịch sử phát triển của loài người. Nó đã được ghi nhận từ năm 400 TCN. Khi đó thì chữ “Hijras” (nhắc đến trong văn bản cổ của người Hindu) đã dùng để chỉ cộng đồng giới thứ 3 bao gồm những người không xác định rõ giới tính là nam hay là nữ.

Lịch sử hình thành của người phi nhị giới Từ khoảng thế kỷ thứ XV đến thế kỷ thứ XIX thì ý tưởng về hệ nhị phân đã bị các quốc gia phương Tây áp đặt vào các nền văn hóa trên toàn thế giới thông qua quá trình thực dân hóa. Tuy nhiên từ những năm 90 của thế kỷ XX thì con người cũng đã bắt đầu đấu tranh để được sống đúng với bản dạng giới của mình. Nhờ có mạng xã hội mà lời kêu gọi này cũng đã được truyền đi một cách nhanh chóng và thu hút được sự tham gia của rất nhiều người. Năm 2012 thì dự án Intersex & Genderqueer Recognition với chủ trương là tán thành việc mở rộng lựa chọn giới tính trên giấy tờ pháp lý đã được thực hiện. Năm 2016, Jamie Shupe đã được công nhận là người phi nhị giới đầu tiên trên giấy tờ pháp lý của Hoa Kỳ. Biểu tượng  Biểu tượng của cộng đồng Non Binary được thiết kế vào năm 2014 bởi Kye Rowan. Đó chính là hình lá cờ có 4 sọc màu. Cụ thể thứ tự và ý nghĩa các màu từ trên xuống dưới như sau:

Là cờ 4 sọc màu của người phi nhị giới Màu vàng: Tượng trưng cho nhóm những người nằm ngoài hệ nhị phân giới. Màu trắng: Tượng trưng cho tất cả các giới tính khác nhau. Màu tím: Tượng trưng cho nhóm những người có sự pha trộn giữa nam và nữ. Màu đen: Tượng trưng cho nhóm người không xác định được giới tính thật của bản thân.

Đặc điểm của người phi nhị giới là gì?

Thực tế thì không có dấu hiệu đặc biệt nào để nhận biết được người phi nhị giới trừ khi họ cởi mở thể hiện bản sắc giới của mình hoặc là chọn cách nói thẳng về giới tính của bản thân. Một số (không phải là toàn bộ) người phi nhị giới thì cần trải qua các thủ thuật y tế nhằm đảm bảo cơ thể có được những đặc điểm phù hợp với bản sắc giới mà họ đã lựa chọn.

Đặc điểm của người phi nhị giới Cộng đồng những người non-binary có cách xưng hô khá linh hoạt. Cụ thể như: Ở các nước phương Tây thì họ thường xuyên sử dụng đại từ xưng hô trung tính như là “they”, “them”, “their” thay vì là những đại từ mang tính phân chia giới. Số khác thì lại sử dụng các từ vựng như “she”, “her”, “hirs” hay “he”, “him”, “his”… hoặc nhiều từ ngữ riêng biệt . Ở Việt Nam thì các đại từ như “mình”, “bạn”, “cậu”, “tớ”... được dùng một cách linh hoạt trong giao tiếp với nhóm LGBTQ+. Ngày Quốc tế phi nhị giới được diễn ra vào 14 tháng 7 hằng năm nhằm để nâng cao nhận thức về sự hiện diện của cộng đồng này, đặc biệt là tôn vinh những đóng góp tích cực của họ đối với xã hội. Có thể bạn quan tâm: Bisexual là gì? Xu hướng giới tính, tình dục như nào trong LGBT Xì trây là gì? Giải nghĩa xì trây trên Facebook, trong LGBT

Ủng hộ cộng đồng non-binary như thế nào?

Việc ủng hộ cũng như tôn trọng người phi nhị giới không khó, ngay cả khi bạn chỉ mới tìm hiểu về họ, cụ thể: Tôn trọng mọi bản sắc giới, không phân biệt hay miệt thị ngoại hình của họ. Không đoán giới tính của bất kỳ ai dựa trên vẻ bề ngoài bởi vì điều này không phải lúc nào cũng chính xác. Hãy lịch sự hỏi trực tiếp họ về tên gọi hoặc là danh xưng mà người phi nhị giới đã chọn. Tuyệt đối không hỏi tên hoặc là giới tính khai sinh của họ. Trường hợp nếu như bản thân họ cũng chưa chắc chắn về danh xưng hoặc là đại từ mà họ chọn cho bản thân thì hãy để họ có thời gian tự tìm hiểu, không nên ép buộc họ phải tuân theo những quy tắc giới tính truyền thống.

Học cách tôn trọng người phi nhị giới Bạn nên tự mình tìm hiểu những thông tin về người phi nhị giới cũng như các kiến thức có liên quan về nhóm cộng đồng này. Điều này sẽ hạn chế được những câu hỏi quá cơ bản, không phù hợp khiến cho những người phi nhị giới cảm thấy không thoải mái. Ủng hộ cũng như bảo vệ quyền và lợi ích hợp pháp của những người phi nhị giới. Ngoài ra, tham gia các hoạt động đấu tranh để chống lại hành vi phân biệt đối xử với cộng động LGBTQ+.  Hỗ trợ và giúp đỡ cho các tổ chức về người chuyển giới và phi nhị giới tại địa phương. Điều này sẽ giúp cho họ tiếp cận được với những dịch vụ mà bản thân đang bị giới hạn như: chăm sóc sức khỏe, an ninh xã hội hay dịch vụ xã hội, giao thông công cộng… Trên đây là những thông tin liên quan đến Non Binary là gì. Hy vọng bài viết này sẽ giúp bạn hiểu rõ hơn về cộng đồng phi nhị giới này, tránh những hành động kỳ thị hay phân biệt giới làm tổn thương đến họ. Read the full article

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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.

After convincing myself that I was a woman during a severe mental health crisis, I visited a licensed nurse practitioner in early 2013 and asked for a hormone prescription. “If you don’t give me the drugs, I’ll buy them off the internet,” I threatened.

Although she’d never met me before, the nurse phoned in a prescription for 2 mg of oral estrogen and 200 mg of Spironolactone that very same day.

The nurse practitioner ignored that I have chronic post-traumatic stress disorder, having previously served in the military for almost 18 years. All of my doctors agree on that. Others believe that I have bipolar disorder and possibly borderline personality disorder.

I should have been stopped, but out-of-control, transgender activism had made the nurse practitioner too scared to say no.

I’d learned how to become a female from online medical documents at a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital website.

After I began consuming the cross-sex hormones, I started therapy at a gender clinic in Pittsburgh so that I could get people to sign off on the transgender surgeries I planned to have.

All I needed to do was switch over my hormone operating fuel and get my penis turned into a vagina. Then I’d be the same as any other woman. That’s the fantasy the transgender community sold me. It’s the lie I bought into and believed.

Only one therapist tried to stop me from crawling into this smoking rabbit hole. When she did, I not only fired her, I filed a formal complaint against her. “She’s a gatekeeper,” the trans community said.

Professional stigmatisms against “conversion therapy” had made it impossible for the therapist to question my motives for wanting to change my sex.

The “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders” (Fifth Edition) says one of the traits of gender dysphoria is believing that you possess the stereotypical feelings of the opposite sex. I felt that about myself, but yet no therapist discussed it with me.

Two weeks hadn’t passed before I found a replacement therapist. The new one quickly affirmed my identity as a woman. I was back on the road to getting vaginoplasty.

There’s abundant online literature informing transgender people that their sex change isn’t real. But when a licensed medical doctor writes you a letter essentially stating that you were born in the wrong body and a government agency or court of law validates that delusion, you become damaged and confused. I certainly did.

Painful Roots

My trauma history resembles a ride down the Highway of Death during the first Gulf War.

As a child, I was sexually abused by a male relative. My parents severely beat me. At this point, I’ve been exposed to so much violence and had so many close calls that I don’t know how to explain why I’m still alive. Nor do I know how to mentally process some of the things I’ve seen and experienced.

Dr. Ray Blanchard has an unpopular theory that explains why someone like me may have been drawn to transgenderism. He claims there are two types of transgender women: homosexuals that are attracted to men, and men who are attracted to the thought or image of themselves as females.

It’s a tough thing to admit, but I belong to the latter group. We are classified as having autogynephilia.

After having watched pornography for years while in the Army and being married to a woman who resisted my demands to become the ideal female, I became that female instead. At least in my head.

While autogynephilia was my motivation to become a woman, gender stereotypes were my means of implementation. I believed wearing a long wig, dresses, heels, and makeup would make me a woman.

Feminists begged to differ on that. They rejected me for conforming to female stereotypes. But as a new member of the transgender community, I beat up on them too. The women who become men don’t fight the transgender community’s wars. The men in dresses do.

Medical Malpractice

The best thing that could have happened would have been for someone to order intensive therapy. That would have protected me from my inclination to cross-dress and my risky sexual transgressions, of which there were many.

Instead, quacks in the medical community hid me in the women’s bathroom with people’s wives and daughters. “Your gender identity is female,” these alleged professionals said.

The medical community is so afraid of the trans community that they’re now afraid to give someone Blanchard’s diagnosis. Trans men are winning in medicine, and they’ve won the battle for language.

Think of the word “transvestite.” They’ve succeeded in making it a vulgar word, even though it just means men dressing like women. People are no longer allowed to tell the truth about men like me. Everyone now has to call us transgender instead.

The diagnostic code in my records at the VA should read Transvestic Disorder (302.3). Instead, the novel theories of Judith Butler and Anne Fausto-Sterling have been used to cover up the truths written about by Blanchard, J. Michael Bailey, and Alice Dreger.

I confess to having been motivated by autogynephilia during all of this. Blanchard was right.

Trauma, hypersexuality owing to childhood sexual abuse, and autogynephilia are all supposed to be red flags for those involved in the medical arts of psychology, psychiatry, and physical medicine—yet nobody except for the one therapist in Pittsburgh ever tried to stop me from changing my sex. They just kept helping me to harm myself.

Escaping to ‘Nonbinary’

Three years into my gender change from male to female, I looked hard into the mirror one day. When I did, the facade of femininity and womanhood crumbled.

Despite having taken or been injected with every hormone and antiandrogen concoction in the VA’s medical arsenal, I didn’t look anything like a female. People on the street agreed. Their harsh stares reflected the reality behind my fraudulent existence as a woman. Biological sex is immutable.

It took three years for that reality to set in with me.

When the fantasy of being a woman came to an end, I asked two of my doctors to allow me to become nonbinary instead of female to bail me out. Both readily agreed.

After pumping me full of hormones—the equivalent of 20 birth control pills per day—they each wrote a sex change letter. The two weren’t just bailing me out. They were getting themselves off the hook for my failed sex change. One worked at the VA. The other worked at Oregon Health & Science University.

To escape the delusion of having become a woman, I did something completely unprecedented in American history. In 2016, I convinced an Oregon judge to declare my sex to be nonbinary—neither male nor female.

In my psychotic mind, I had restored the mythical third sex to North America. And I became the first legally recognized nonbinary person in the country.

Celebrity Status

The landmark court decision catapulted me to instant fame within the LGBT community. For 10 nonstop days afterward, the media didn’t let me sleep. Reporters hung out in my Facebook feed, journalists clung to my every word, and a Portland television station beamed my wife and I into living rooms in the United Kingdom.

Becoming a woman had gotten me into The New York Times. Convincing a judge that my sex was nonbinary got my photos and story into publications around the world.

Then, before the judge’s ink had even dried on my Oregon sex change court order, a Washington, D.C.-based LGBT legal aid organization contacted me. “We want to help you change your birth certificate,” they offered.

Within months, I scored another historic win after the Department of Vital Records issued me a brand new birth certificate from Washington, D.C., where I was born. A local group called Whitman-Walker Health had gotten my sex designation on my birth certificate switched to “unknown.” It was the first time in D.C. history a birth certificate had been printed with a sex marker other than male or female.

Another transgender legal aid organization jumped on the Jamie Shupe bandwagon, too. Lambda Legal used my nonbinary court order to help convince a Colorado federal judge to order the State Department to issue a passport with an X marker (meaning nonbinary) to a separate plaintiff named Dana Zzyym.

LGBT organizations helping me to screw up my life had become a common theme. During my prior sex change to female, the New York-based Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund had gotten my name legally changed. I didn’t like being named after the uncle who’d molested me. Instead of getting me therapy for that, they got me a new name.

A Pennsylvania judge didn’t question the name change, either. Wanting to help a transgender person, she had not only changed my name, but at my request she also sealed the court order, allowing me to skip out on a ton of debt I owed because of a failed home purchase and begin my new life as a woman. Instead of merging my file, two of the three credit bureaus issued me a brand new line of credit.

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 nonbinary option that now exists in 11 states.

The truth is that my sex change to nonbinary was a medical and scientific fraud.

Consider the fact that before the historic court hearing occurred, my lawyer informed me that the judge had a transgender child.

Sure enough, the morning of my brief court hearing, the judge didn’t ask me a single question. Nor did this officer of the court demand to see any medical evidence alleging that I was born something magical. Within minutes, the judge just signed off on the court order.

I do not have any disorders of sexual development. All of my sexual confusion was in my head. I should have been treated. Instead, at every step, doctors, judges, and advocacy groups indulged my fiction.

The carnage that came from my court victory is just as precedent-setting as the decision itself. The judge’s order led to millions of taxpayer dollars being spent to put an X marker on driver’s licenses in 11 states so far. You can now become male, female, or nonbinary in all of them.

In my opinion, the judge in my case should have recused herself. In doing so, she would have spared me the ordeal still yet to come. She also would have saved me from having to bear the weight of the big secret behind my win.

I now believe that she wasn’t just validating my transgender identity. She was advancing her child’s transgender identity, too.

A sensible magistrate would have politely told me no and refused to sign such an outlandish legal request. “Gender is just a concept. Biological sex defines all of us,” that person would have said.

In January 2019, unable to advance the fraud for another single day, I reclaimed my male birth sex. The weight of the lie on my conscience was heavier than the value of the fame I’d gained from participating in this elaborate swindle.

Two fake gender identities couldn’t hide the truth of my biological reality. There is no third gender or third sex. Like me, intersex people are either male or female. Their condition is the result of a disorder of sexual development, and they need help and compassion.

I played my part in pushing forward this grand illusion. I’m not the victim here. My wife, daughter, and the American taxpayers are—they are the real victims.

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6/16/2017 Willamette Week: Oregon Becomes First State to Allow Gender-Neutral Option On Drivers Licenses

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August Tbr

I'm usually a mood reader, however, lately I've been a little overwhelmed with my HUGE tbr, so this month I made a list of books I've been wanting to read. Let's see if I can accomplish this list!

Do you schedule the books that you will read or are you a mood reader?

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Hey! I just saw a post about Iceland adding a third gender, do know of any other countries in Europe that do this too? Or might do in the future? Love this blog💜❤️

Hey thanks a lot!

Here ya go:  Legal recognition of non-binary gender

“In recent years, some societies have begun to legally recognize non-binary, genderqueer, or third gender identities. Some non-western societies have long recognized transgender people as a third gender, though this may not (or may only recently)[4] include formal legal recognition. Among western nations, Australia may have been the first to recognize a third classification, following recognition of Alex MacFarlane as having indeterminate sex, reported in 2003. Transgender advocate Norrie May-Welby was recognized as having unspecified status in 2014.[5][6] In 2016, an Oregon circuit court ruled that Jamie Shupe could legally change gender to non-binary.[7]”

In Europe:

Austria 

Denmark

Germany

Iceland

The Netherlands

United Kingdom

More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_recognition_of_non-binary_gender#Jurisdictions

Also: Trans Rights Europe & Central Asia Map & Index 2019 

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Read About Jamie, A Former Transgender, "I was America’s first Non-Binary person. It was all a sham! Now, I want to live again as the man that I am."

[su_pullquote]Jamie Shupe @NotableDesister

Jamie Shupe is a retired Sergeant First Class from the United States Army. He previously identified as transgender and was the first American to obtain non-binary status under law.

Source: TheDailySignal.com [/su_pullquote]

The following are the unedited words of Jamie Shupe taken from the thedailysignal.com:

“Four years ago, I wrote about my decision to…

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did you all read about that jamie shupe shit

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Oregon made history on Thursday. It’s the first state to offer a third, nonbinary gender option on all official driver’s licenses and other identity documents. 

Now, Oregonians applying for a license or a state ID card can choose their gender marker to be male, female, or “X” for people who don’t want to list themselves as either of those categories, like nonbinary or agender folks, intersex people, and others. 

For Army veteran Jamie Shupe, who in June 2016 became the nation's first person to legally change their gender to non-binary, it's the culmination of an emotional, exciting year.

"I've trembled with the fear of failure and cried tears until I had no more tears to cry, because of the magnitude of what's been at stake — and now won," Shupe told NBC News. "But in the end, the huge legal and non-binary civil rights battle that I expected to unfold going into this never came to pass; simply because this was always the right thing to do all along." [...]

The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), which develops standards for the production of passports, has included a recommendation for the "X" field since 1996. In a document provided to NBC News by ICAO, the standards say that sex is "to be specified by the use of the single initial commonly used in the language of the State where the document is issued ... the capital letter F for female, M for male, or X for unspecified."

Citizens of Australia and New Zealand already have the option to choose "X" on their passports, and in India passport applicants can pick Male, Female or Eunuch. It's not limited to passports: Also in India, voter registration cards can now read "O" for "Other," and in Canada, Ontario's government became the first in North America to allow "X" in the sex field.

Simply amazing. I’m so happy for you, Oregon. 

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Assessment 1 - Experiment 3

“Oceans existed before they were named.

Why must your gender be any different?

Be as free as the breeze, and as relentless as the sea.

Labels come later, if you wish it.” - proudnb (Found on Tumblr) ->  https://proudnb.tumblr.com/

Aim: To animate the spectrum in between genders

Method:

Twas not easy nor did I get all the genders (SORRY FOR NOT BEING ABLE TO FIT THEM ALL BUT THERE WERE TOO MANY) as you can see below 

I first started with animating the symbols and how it would change from male to female and everything in between but obviously fitting everything in between proved to be impossible. So instead I had a little fun, with the symbol playfully evolving from one sign to another.

Then I realised - the gender symbols are just symbols - it’s easy enough to just say they exist but I thought it would be cool to put in images as the background - emphasising on the fact that all of us a humans - and the idea of gender label should only be determined by you if you want a label. 

So I got images of beautiful people online - both because they were transgender or because they had kickass hair or had fashion that I particularly enjoyed - being sure to end on the stereotypical ends of a “male” and a “female” at either end of the “spectrum”.

I DID NOT TAKE THE PHOTOS HERE ARE THE LINKS TO ALL OF THEM ARE DOWN BELOW

One particularly notable place where I found non-binary photography was Laurence Philomene’s curatorial project of a Non-Binary Photo Series.

And as a final thing i decided to overlay the animation on top - not as intention to match people to a gender label but to show how a spectrum (not necessarily linear) of humans exist.

Conclusion:

I’m really pleased with the final result and sincerely hope I didn’t insult anyone. It wasn’t my intention - but my idea is to show how binaries exist in all facets of life and we shouldn’t just see it as divisions but rather as permutations within everyone’s complex identities but fundamentally we’re all humans. 

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[profeminist]

“Oregon became the first state in U.S. history on Thursday to offer more than two gender options on identity documents, including driver's licenses, making it the first to legally recognize non-binary, intersex and agender people on ID cards.

When the history-making rule - which the state Transportation Commission passed late Thursday afternoon - goes into effect on July 3, Oregon residents will have the option to choose among three gender categories when applying for driver's licenses or state ID cards: male, female and "X" for non-binary or unspecified.

For Army veteran Jamie Shupe, who in June 2016 became the nation's first person to legally change their gender to non-binary, it's the culmination of an emotional, exciting year.

"I've trembled with the fear of failure and cried tears until I had no more tears to cry, because of the magnitude of what's been at stake — and now won," Shupe told NBC News. Shupe plans to apply for a non-binary driver's license on July 3, alongside their wife, Sandy. The two plan to have a small celebratory dinner afterward.”

Read the full piece here

[kflemhealth]

America's first non-binary person renounces transgenderism, says, "I have always been male"

(Natural News) The man who holds the title as the first in the United States to ever legally identify as “neither” in terms of his official gender status has since come forward to reveal that so-called “non-binary” gender identification is a total fraud, and that he’s “always been male.” Jamie Shupe of Oregon has essentially...

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[profoundpaul]

Mike Huckabee: The Media Won’t Tell This Transgender Veteran’s Story

Major liberal narrative crash: You may have heard the name Jamie Shupe. Shupe was a hero of the transgender movement: an outspoken trans activist who first transitioned from male to female, then became the first person in the U.S. to win the legal right to be officially classified as “non-binary” gender. He/she/xe has not only…

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[universalpronouns-blog]

The Linguistic Lie Behind Singular "They"

Originally Posted at http://lettersfromhoquessing.blogspot.ca/2017/05/the-linguistic-lie-behind-singular-they.html?m=1 Reposted Here Without Permission. No Infringement is Intended. Letters from Hoquessing By Claudio R. Salvucci and the grace of a loving God Monday, May 22, 2017 The Linguistic Lie Behind Singular "They" Recently I watched a confrontation between a student and University of Toronto Professor Jordan Peterson, who publicly took a stand against non-binary gender pronouns last year. The student kept stridently insisting Dr. Peterson was morally obligated to use the plural pronoun "they", claiming repeatedly and with absolute confidence that it was historically attested in English and went all the way back to Shakespeare. Beyond the shocking rudeness with which this claim was asserted, it seemed a rather bizarre assertion to make, and I wondered where it came from. After a bit of digging, I was led, very unfortunately, to what seems to be the source of the claim: the American Dialect Society's Word of the Year for 2015. Here's the problem. The ADS's statement is shot through with an improper and apparently politically motivated conflation of two historically and grammatically distinct usages of singular "they": 1) an old, often contested but stubbornly enduring usage that was always restricted to a particular context--that I will continue to call "singular they" proper 2) a very new misapplication of the pronoun as an alternative to individuals who refuse to identify with either of the two biological sexes, that I will call "non-binary they" Note well: I am not asserting that the ADS is unaware of the distinction. Their statements show that they are quite aware of it. What I am asserting, rather, is that the ADS and some of its members are deliberately obfuscating that distinction to advance a political agenda. The statement the ADS released in 2016 mentions the non-binary aspect of singular "they" multiple times, and indeed that new definition is the entire focus of their decision. Some illustrative statements can be seen in the passages below (emphases mine): • "They was recognized by the society for its emerging use as a pronoun to refer to a known person, often as a conscious choice by a person rejecting the traditional gender binary of he and she." • "While editors have increasingly moved to accepting singular they when used in a generic fashion, voters in the Word of the Year proceedings singled out its newer usage as an identifier for someone who may identify as “non-binary” in gender terms." • “In the past year, new expressions of gender identity have generated a deal of discussion, and singular they has become a particularly significant element of that conversation,” Zimmer said. In a purely descriptive sense, acknowledging the existence of this new usage is certainly well within the purview and mission of the ADS. The issue is not that non-binary "they" was discussed or even voted Word of the Year, but rather that the organization defended and promoted it with misleading statements. For example: “While many novel gender-neutral pronouns have been proposed, they has the advantage of already being part of the language.” Has "they" been part of the English language? Yes. Indisputably. But here's the catch: it has never been part of the language in the way that gender activists imply. Historically, singular "they" occurred when an unspecified individual from a mixed sex group was being referred to, such as: "Each one of you needs to pick up their stuff". An editor who does not want to use a circumlocution has a couple of choices in such sentences: either use singular "their", or use the (binary!) construction "his or her". Although not every editor acknowledges the grammatical correctness of singular "they", practically speaking these are the two common options. In my own work, I have found that the clunkiness of "his or her" has tended to tip the scales in favor of "they", particularly when multiple pronouns are required. How did a plural pronoun find itself continually intruding in this position, with a singular subject? I have not consulted any research on this, but I suspect that common speech has tended to support it because of the implicit plurality of the subject as one of a group and also because the plurality of genders of the referents. This is just a hypothesis; I may well be wrong. But whatever its origins and theoretical underpinnings, its usage over the centuries is crystal clear. Singular "they" has only ever appeared in a very limited set of cases, which have themselves been strongly contested by grammarians. Outside these cases, it is dead wrong. There is absolutely no historical justification for grammatically barbaric sentences such as these, culled from an actual news story: "In Britain, 20-year-old Maria Munir made headlines when they came out as non-binary", and "In the US, an Oregon circuit court went much further, ruling in June that Portland resident Jamie Shupe could change their legal gender to non-binary." Obviously, gender/sexual identification is the underlying driving issue here, so we need to look at the way English has handled this issue in the past. Cases of uncertain or intermediate sexual identity, of course, are nothing new, and have been known and discussed since antiquity. The practice has generally been in those cases to simply assign a sexually ambiguous person to the closest of two of the three established genders: masculine or feminine. This assignment could draw from widely different observational parameters, from a mere glance to a medical examination. However, in all cases, the judgment was always made on the same assumed basis. A person's biological sex, as nearly as that could be ascertained, determined their grammatical gender. To illustrate how forcefully this principle held, we can look at a couple of lectures (here and here) given by Dr. Hay Graham in 1835 at the Westminster School of Medicine on individuals of doubtful sex. Watch the pronouns Dr. Graham uses. Of Maria Pateca: "…she became a man. He afterwards married, but remained beardless." Of Germain Marie: "when she was fifteen years old...she suddenly found herself furnished with the parts of generation of a man...Cardinal Lenoncourt, after the necessary examination…ordered him to assume the habits of his sex." And "Jean Pierre was a woman from the waist upwards, and a man from the waist downwards; and in the centre was a woman on the right side and a man on the left; yet, in point of fact, he was neither one nor the other." Marie Derrier's sex was likewise unable to be agreed upon by medical experts: "Hufeland and Mursinna pronounced this individual a girl; Stark and Marteus, on the contrary, considered it a boy." The two last cases mentioned—Jean Pierre and Marie Derrier—are precisely where we should expect to see the singular "they" of supposedly longstanding English precedent. But of course, we don't. And it's obvious why we don't. Graham could not have said "*Stark and Marteus, on the contrary, considered them a boy" because that construction would have been flagrantly ungrammatical in natural language. And still is. If Graham gives us any justification for any non-binary pronoun, that would be "it"—and if that one seems jarringly cold and insulting, remember that we use it more commonly than you might realize at first. We are quite used to asking an expectant mother with absolutely no qualms whatsoever: "Do you know yet if it's a boy or a girl?" A co-worker may be complaining about being cut off in traffic, and you might mischievously inquire about the driver, "Was it a man or a woman?" I have not reviewed the literature for pronoun use, but I have little reason to suspect that Graham's usage is anomalous. He sometimes presents us with a jarring switch between masculine and feminine pronouns following a medical event or diagnosis, and he sometimes gives us a constant pronoun throughout. But beyond the neuter "it", which for obvious reasons is employed for human beings only in quite limited circumstances, there is no gender outside of "he" and "she" to speak of, even in the most difficult cases of sexual identification. Not "they", not anything else. As long as the sex of a person was known or was clarified from a previously indistinct or incorrect state, the language has always demanded that the corresponding binary gender—masculine or feminine—be applied. To be sure, in common social circles this application involves a practical, on-the-fly judgment that has worked in the favor of the gender activists: English speakers naturally find it insulting, demeaning, and rude to misgender people and call a man "she" or a woman "he". And since we do not, thank goodness, subject everyone we meet to a thorough anatomical and genetic panel, it has always been easiest to simply extend strangers the benefit of the doubt when visible markers tilted one way or the other. But it is foolish in the extreme to confuse that pragmatic application for a general underlying rule. No one's personal opinion, preference, or mindset has ever had anything to do with the assignment of gender in English. Biological sex dictates grammatical gender. Period. That is simply how English works. So it's quite deceiving for the ADS to defend the current neologism with a statement so misleading as: "The use of singular they builds on centuries of usage, appearing in the work of writers such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Jane Austen." Note what that sentence does not say. It does not say that singular they was used for centuries in a non-binary sense. It admits that it merely "builds on" centuries of usage. Again, the ADS knows full well that non-binary "they" is a new coinage, explicitly acknowledged not only in the text of the statement but also by linguist and columnist Ben Zimmer, chair of the ADS's new words committee, in an interview with Business Insider: "It moves beyond the traditional binary of 'he' and 'she'," Zimmer told Business Insider. "It feels like an opening up of the language, allowing for a greater possibility of what these pronouns can refer to." So here's my question. If non-binary "they" is indeed a newly invented term, then what exactly is the purpose of mentioning "centuries of usage" in the first place? Are we explaining its appearance, or trying to justify its appearance? Are we describing language as it exists, or are we actively trying to make it something else? Of course, language is not permanently fixed, and semantic categories can expand. But linguists have typically been preoccupied with watching words naturally expand to new semantic categories. They have not been typically been encouraging them, artificially, into those categories. And that for a good reason. Attempts to coerce linguistic change do not have a very good track record of achieving what they aim at. University of Illinois Professor of English and linguistics Dennis Baron has compiled an extremely useful list in his "The Words that Failed: a chronology of early nonbinary pronouns". What is immediately striking about these pronouns is their lack of consistency. There are over a hundred cited: strange invented combinations from academic and lay proposals, and a few obscure dialect variants. They are a thorough mishmash in terms of derivation, construction, and overall form. Baron is absolutely right to call these "words that failed" and contrast them with the comparatively successful singular "they"—and his thought process, linked on the ADS-L listserv in December of 2015, likely influenced the ultimate ADS decision. But in another article "The politics of He. Literally", Baron strangely argues as follows: Today, the literal politics of generic he is settled. As the second-wave feminist slogan puts it, “A woman’s place is in the House, and in the Senate.” And in the White House, as well. And the gender politics of the form is settled as well: all the major grammars, dictionaries, and style guides warn against generic he not because it’s bad grammar (which it is), but because it’s sexist (which it also is). The authorities don’t like the coordinate his or her, either: it’s wordy and awkward. The only options left are singular they or an invented pronoun. None of the 120 pronouns coined so far over the past couple of centuries has managed to catch on. And despite the fact that there are a few purists left who still object to it, it looks like singular they will win by default: it’s a centuries-old option for English speakers and writers, and it shows no sign of going away. Many of the style guides accept singular they; the others will just have to get over it if they want to maintain their credibility." If you'll permit me to roll my eyes at the cheesy triumphalist progressivism that brackets this paragraph, I can address the essentials of his argument. Baron's logic behind preferring an existing pronoun to an invented one like thon is certainly understandable. It is a sound theoretical instinct, and if I were lobbying for a new pronoun I'd make the same case myself. But here we see the same sloppy conflation that underpins the ADS statement: singular "they" is indeed a centuries old option, but absolutely not for the use he is advocating. And is it really any easier to force a pronoun into grammatically forbidden territory than to invent a whole new one? Baron characterizes the acceptance of "they" as so inevitable it will destroy the credibility of those who oppose it. Which "they" does he mean here? Singular, non-binary, both? We are left to guess—but while I may heartily agree that the prevailing winds are in favor the former and have set my editorial sails accordingly, I am utterly unable to imagine the latter doing anything but floating ignominiously in the doldrums of the Great Linguistic Garbage Patch. After all, Baron's own research shows that a desired expansion of the word "one"—advocated by quotes he collected from 1868, 1884, and 1888—failed just as badly as "thon" and the rest, despite a history of use much more solid than non-binary "they". In a slide presentation, Baron gives two disadvantages to singular "they": first that it "drives the sticklers nuts", and second that "People aren’t so comfortable using singular they for specific, named, individuals, especially when the referent is in the same syntactic unit as the pronoun". Aren't so comfortable??? For goodness' sake, that's admitting the entire point right there! People aren't comfortable with it because they know it isn't natural to the grammar they speak. The activists are blithely minimizing the objections of millions of Anglophones and are trying to impose an invented construction onto a public that does not want it or need it. The sticklers in this controversy are the gender activists, who have invented their own phony grammar for completely non-linguistic reasons and think they should be allowed to cram it down everyone else's throats without so much of a whimper of dissent. To object to their linguistic Jacobinism is not some prissy grammatical fetish—it is defending the good sense of the common folk against the insufferably imperious diktats of the Academy. So here's the bottom line. I cannot stand here in 2017, in the middle of the veritable graveyard of failed pronouns that Baron has so helpfully uncovered, and place the mantle of inevitability on a completely unnatural coinage invented by radical gender activists and obsequiously ratified by irresponsible academics and publishers. I am only one editor, but I will happily throw my lot in with Dr. Peterson on this. I will never ever acknowledge non-binary "they" as anything other than atrociously ungrammatical English. Period. But more importantly, the English-speaking world at large will never acknowledge it either. This linguistic hijacking is doomed to eventual failure because it is founded on fallacy, and there's not a stitch any activist can do to change that. Punto, e basta. In the meantime, since it seems fashionably stylish to make demands on academics, I am calling on the American Dialect Society do three things. First: retract its grossly misleading conflation of singular "they" and non-binary "they", and specify clearly that the latter has no grammatical precedent in the English language and is an entirely new coinage on par with many other failed prescriptivist proposals of the past. Second: publicly correct the false claims made by gender activists on the historicity of non-binary "they". Third: clarify more forcefully to parties outside and inside the society that the ADS only offers its Word of the Year in a descriptive sense, and that it is in no way a prescriptive ratification, approval, endorsement, or advocacy of the words in question. Realistically, though, I am not expecting any of this to happen. Because we all know the climate of American academia is such that the "Social Justice Warriors" (there's a phrase for 2017) would then show up at the ADS's doors and dish out the same bullying treatment that they gave to Dr. Peterson. And given the plainly telegraphed views of some of those involved, I am not hopeful for any result besides continued capitulation to the hubris of the social engineers and their Babelian fantasies of piercing heaven with a tower of invented pronouns.

[nonbinary-nature-lover-jeri]

When asked their sex, some are going with option 'X' - USA Today

When asked their sex, some are going with option ‘X’ – USA Today

The following appears in USA Today and is one of the first national news service to have a non-biased article about non-binary gender identities.  Let’s hope this continues! To read the entire article please follow the link at the bottom of this page. Jamie Shupe, the first person to be legally recognized as gender non-binary, at home in Oregon.(Photo: Jamie Shupe) America has slowly begun to…

[yahoonewsdigest-us]

3rd choice: Oregonians can mark 'nongender' option on driver's license

US News

3rd choice: Oregonians can mark 'nongender' option on driver's license

In a move hailed by LGBT rights groups, Oregon became the first state in the US on Thursday to allow residents to mark their gender as "not specified" on applications for driver's licenses, learner's permits and identity cards. Under the new rule approved by the Oregon Transportation Commission, Oregonians who select the new option will have an X appear instead of M or F on those cards. The rule, which takes effect on July 3, is a first for the U.S., David House, spokesman for Oregon's Driver and Motor Vehicles Division, or DMV, told the Associated Press.

It's something that we should do because it's the right thing to do.

Oregon Transportation Commissioner Sean O'Hollaren

The DMV said the new rule, which the commission passed unanimously, came about after a Multnomah County judge in June 2016 allowed Jamie Shupe, a Portland resident, to legally change to "non-binary" gender. DMV Administrator Tom McClellan choked up as he read letters of support to the commission, including from someone who encountered an embarrassing situation while going through a body scanner at an airport, and the security officer didn't know whether to push the blue button for a male passenger or a pink one for a female one.

[avatarmovies]

jonplandau

It was one year ago today that a core group of Avatar cast and crew traveled to Wellington, New Zealand to finish principle photography. We asked a few people to stay for post-production work and we are thankful the agreed. A group us, who now call New Zealand our second home, got together for dinner to mark the one-year anniversary of departing Los Angeles. L-R: Sam Huh, Connor Gartland, Jamie Landau, James Cameron, Buffy Bailey, Jon Landau, Dan Fowler, Sean Kim and Ben Shupe. Missing from the photo: Ben Murphy, Gretchen Schroeder, Casey Schatz Donald Dey and Ben Watson.