Christie Elan-Cane: Difference between revisions

| pronouns=[[English_neutral_pronouns#Per|per/per/perself]]<ref>https://twitter.com/christieelancan</ref>

[[Christie Elan-Cane]] is a [[non-gendered]] activist based in the UK, "fighting for legal and social recognition outside the societal gender system".<ref name="LJprofile">http://elancane.livejournal.com/profile</ref>

: ''"...Christie Elan-Cane, 36, appears somewhere further along the gender continuum than Zoltar, with a shaved head, flat chest and khaki shirt. Now based in London, he grew up convinced he occupied the wrong body, but also believed he wasn't a man. Standing naked before a mirror was a torturous reminder of Christie's problem, and he dieted continuously, hoping his hated breasts would disappear. At 26, Christie began looking for a surgeon who would perform a [[Top surgery#Mastectomy|double mastectomy]]. The first recoiled with horror, and even when Christie found the right surgeon, it took more than a year to raise the funds to pay for the operation. During that period, Christie began to wonder "if I was going against nature", and at his lowest moments he contemplated "getting a chisel and doing something about it myself". Finally, Christie went under the knife. "The anaesthetist asked whether I wanted to go through with it and I said `yes', because I knew if I didn't, I'd regret it for the rest of my life. The next thing I remember is waking up again. I could feel through the bandages that my chest was flat and it was the happiest moment of my life." The second stage of Christie's operation was a [[hysterectomy]]. "I now feel happy with my body and myself - I don't have the same confusion or distress."''<ref name="Wheelwright">{{Cite web |title=I'm just a sweet transgenderist |last=Wheelwright |first=Julie |work=The Independent |date=27 March 1995 |access-date=30 April 2020 |url= https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/im-just-a-sweet-transgenderist-1613010.html}}</ref>

In October 2012 Christie announced on per LiveJournal that per had set up two online petitions, the first concerning the legal protection for all trans* and intersex individuals in the UK, and the second in support of ‘X’ passports in the United Kingdom [http://elancane.livejournal.com/2012/10/19/]. Pink News reported in an article dated 10th January 2013 that several government ministers had signed the second petition; "''MPs Lynne Featherstone, the Liberal Democrat former Minister for Women and Equality, now the International Development Minister, and MP Simon Hughes, deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, who came out as bisexual to PinkNews in 2006, have both signed the petition which has almost three hundred signatures''".<ref name="McCormick">{{Cite web |title=MPs sign petition encouraging government to allow gender-neutral passports |last=McCormick |first=Joseph |work=PinkNews |date=10 January 2013 |access-date=30 April 2020 |url= https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2013/01/10/mps-sign-petition-encouraging-government-to-allow-gender-neutral-passports/ }}</ref>