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| date_birth=1959<ref name="bbc2016">{{Cite web |title=At 12 I grew a beard and had a period |author=Butler, Alec |work=BBC News |date=22 April 2016 |access-date=14 June 2020 |url= https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36092431 | | date_birth=1959<ref name="bbc2016">{{Cite web |title=At 12 I grew a beard and had a period |author=Butler, Alec |work=BBC News |date=22 April 2016 |access-date=14 June 2020 |url= https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36092431}}</ref> | ||
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| nationality=Canadian | | nationality=Canadian | ||
| pronouns=[[they/them]] or [[he/him]]<ref name="bbc2016" /> | | pronouns=[[they/them]] or [[he/him]]<ref name="bbc2016" /> | ||
| gender=[[nonbinary]]<ref name="Helkio">{{Cite web |title=Alec Butler's “Rough Paradise” – Living Life Shamelessly |last=Helkio |first=Raymond |work=theBUZZ |date= |access-date=14 June 2020 |url= https://thebuzzmag.ca/2017/01/alec-butlers-rough-paradise-living-life-shamelessly/ | | gender=[[nonbinary]]<ref name="Helkio">{{Cite web |title=Alec Butler's “Rough Paradise” – Living Life Shamelessly |last=Helkio |first=Raymond |work=theBUZZ |date= |access-date=14 June 2020 |url= https://thebuzzmag.ca/2017/01/alec-butlers-rough-paradise-living-life-shamelessly/}}</ref> | ||
| occupation=writer, filmmaker | | occupation=writer, filmmaker | ||
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==Quotes== | ==Quotes== | ||
{{quote|I discovered that people like us, people who identify with both genders, or none, [[History of nonbinary gender|have existed]] since human beings have existed, that we were worshipped as deities, that masses of people performed special rituals in our honor, we had sacred and practical roles in the community, we were wanted and desired. [...] We need to remember as Two-Spirit, gender queer, non-binary people that we are the descendants of these LGBTQI2S ancestors who were almost exterminated but they did not succeed because we are still here, that we exist as flesh, blood, guts and bones, mind and spirit, living lives of purpose and pride, we are not just myths in stories from the past.<ref name="Ditch">{{Cite web |title=‘I Often Wondered If We Were the Result of a Medical Experiment’: Alec Butler on Being Born Intersex |last=Butler |first=Alec |work=Ditch the Label (USA) |date=19 September 2016 |access-date=14 June 2020 |url= https://us.ditchthelabel.org/intersex/ | {{quote|I discovered that people like us, people who identify with both genders, or none, [[History of nonbinary gender|have existed]] since human beings have existed, that we were worshipped as deities, that masses of people performed special rituals in our honor, we had sacred and practical roles in the community, we were wanted and desired. [...] We need to remember as Two-Spirit, gender queer, non-binary people that we are the descendants of these LGBTQI2S ancestors who were almost exterminated but they did not succeed because we are still here, that we exist as flesh, blood, guts and bones, mind and spirit, living lives of purpose and pride, we are not just myths in stories from the past.<ref name="Ditch">{{Cite web |title=‘I Often Wondered If We Were the Result of a Medical Experiment’: Alec Butler on Being Born Intersex |last=Butler |first=Alec |work=Ditch the Label (USA) |date=19 September 2016 |access-date=14 June 2020 |url= https://us.ditchthelabel.org/intersex/}}</ref>}} | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||