Affirmed to Death: The Tragic Case of Jamie Shupe, America's First 'Nonbinary' Pioneer
How raging, unchecked autogynephilia destroyed a life
During his sojourn as a detransitioned man, James Clifford “Elisa Rae” Shupe sought an attorney to help him “put gender identity on trial.” Sadly, no one would help a self-described mentally ill person sue the federal government just because he had changed his mind for the moment.
Their caution was justified. Shupe, who first made headlines by becoming the world’s first ‘nonbinary’ person, assumed another, new identity in 2023, and turned on another set of allies with the help of an indicted hacker and a liberal online outlet, Mother Jones.
Returning to transition did not help Mr. Shupe. Weeks after his ‘gender-affirming’ orchiectomy, the removal of his testicles, Shupe took his own life by hanging at the parking garage next to the Veterans Affairs medical center in Syracuse, New York in January 2025. He was 61.
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