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Transgender Trailblazer Legally Reclaims Original Sex

Transgender Trailblazer Legally Reclaims Original Sex
Activists participate in a rally at the Reflecting Pool of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on April 10, 2019. Alex Wong/Getty Images
Matthew Vadum
Matthew Vadum
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An Oregon court that granted the first individual legal recognition for his “non-binary” sex designation has rescinded the status and restored the sex on his birth certificate to “male.”

In a dramatic repudiation of the transgenderism movement and the industry that supports it, the request for the change came from James Shupe, an icon of transgender activism, who denounced the movement and the idea that one can change one’s sex as a fraud.