Editing Gender neutrality (section)

=== Elisa Rae Shupe ===
On 27 April 2016, [[Elisa Rae Shupe]] filed a petition in [[Multnomah County, Oregon]], to no longer be designated male or female. Shupe, a retired United States Army sergeant, was born with male anatomy and lived for a time as a transgender woman. She later began to self-identify as non-binary. The Oregon state statutes had been changed in 2013 to no longer require proof of medical transition before a change in legal gender status. The statutes did not specify whether the new status had to be a binary one. Two of Shupe's doctors wrote letters for her stating that she was neither male nor female. On 10 June, Judge Amy Holmes Hehn granted Shupe's petition.<ref>Hanssen, Shelby. "Note: Beyond Male or Female: Using Nonbinary Gender Identity to Confront Outdated Notions of Sex and Gender in the Law". 2017, https://law.uoregon.edu/images/uploads/entries/Hanssen.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181125203435/https://law.uoregon.edu/images/uploads/entries/Hanssen.pdf |date=25 November 2018 }}</ref> The ruling was a significant advance toward government recognition of non-binary individuals. In 2019, Shupe issued a statement explaining that she now disagreed with the concept of gender identity and was returning to living as a man.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Shupe |first1=Jamie |title=Public Announcement: I Have Returned To My Male Birth Sex |url=https://jamieshupe.wordpress.com/2019/01/26/public-announcement-i-have-returned-to-my-male-birth-sex/ |website=Website Of Jamie Shupe |date=26 January 2019 |access-date=24 April 2019 |archive-date=9 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190509010840/https://jamieshupe.wordpress.com/2019/01/26/public-announcement-i-have-returned-to-my-male-birth-sex/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> However, in 2022 she published a declaration that she was a trans woman, cutting ties with gender-critical feminists and conversion therapists. Shupe also changed her name to [[Elisa Rae Shupe]].