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'''Jack Monroe''' (born 17 March 1988) is an English author and food blogger who came out as nonbinary in 2015,<ref name="news_Bein">{{Cite web |title=Being non-binary: I'm not A Girl Called Jack any more, but I'm not a boy either |last=Monroe |first=Jack |work=newstatesman.com |date=20 October 2015 |access-date=1 April 2020 |url= https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/feminism/2015/10/being-non-binary-i-m-not-girl-called-jack-any-more-i-m-not-boy-either}}</ref><ref name="stan_Jack">{{Cite web |last=Urwin|first=Rosamund|title=Jack Monroe: 'I will always be on the girls' team' |work=Evening Standard |date=9 November 2015 |access-date=1 April 2020 |url= https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/jack-monroe-on-coming-out-as-transgender-i-will-always-be-on-the-girls-team-a3109951.html}}</ref> a couple months after pursuing legal action against The Daily Mail for printing Jack's [[deadname]].<ref name="pink_Jack">{{Cite web |title=Jack Monroe ‘taking legal action’ against Daily Mail for claim Jack isn’t her ‘real’ name |last=Duffy |first=Nick |work=PinkNews |date=26 August 2015 |access-date=1 April 2020 |url= https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2015/08/26/jack-monroe-taking-legal-action-against-daily-mail-over-claim-jack-isnt-her-real-name/}}</ref> (They had legally changed names in 2011, while identifying as lesbian.<ref name="Cadwalladr">{{Cite web |title=Jack Monroe: ‘I want to be treated as a person, not as a woman or a man’ |last=Cadwalladr |first=Carole |work=the Guardian |date=24 July 2016 |access-date=1 April 2020 |url= https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jul/24/jack-monroe-i-want-to-be-treated-as-a-person-not-a-woman-or-a-man-interview-transgender-identity}}</ref>)

In 2016 Jack wrote "I’m a little bit female and a little bit male."<ref name="theg_I'ma">{{Cite web |title=I’m a little bit female and a little bit male. Finally, I fit in my skin {{!}} Jack Monroe |last=Monroe |first=Jack |work=the Guardian |date=19 May 2016 |access-date=1 April 2020 |url= https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/may/19/jack-monroe-little-bit-male-little-bit-female }}</ref> Jack uses [[singular they]] pronouns<ref name="stan_Jack" />, or "she/her".<ref name="Cadwalladr" />

Jack has said that coming out as nonbinary caused the loss of a £30k book deal and 'invited a whole world of abuse from across the political and feminist spectrum'.<ref name="dail_Food">{{Cite web |title=Food writer Jack Monroe reveals that she's an alcoholic |last=Finley |first=Sarah |work=Mail Online |date=6 January 2019 |access-date=1 April 2020 |url= https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6561915/Food-writer-Jack-Monroe-reveals-shes-alcoholic.html}}</ref>