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Jamie Shupe becomes first legally non-binary person in the US
When an Oregon judge declared Jamie Shupe could legally shed the designation of male or female, Shupe felt free.
“I have my life back,” Shupe said. “I’m not a male. I’m not a female.”
Shupe appears to be the first person in the United States who has successfully petitioned for a non-binary gender classification, according to Hayley Gorenberg, deputy legal director for Lambda Legal, a New York-based gay rights organization.
“Classic gender markers don’t fit everybody,” Gorenberg said, calling the petition significant for helping people “exist without labels that don’t accurately describe them”.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/16/jamie-shupe-first-non-binary-person-oregon
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