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During the years before she came out as a woman, she used to self-identify as neither male nor female, which was widely reported by the media. She had modeled both men's wear and women's wear, and would defy interviewers' attempts to label her with a gender. In 2011, in response to a question about how she self-defines, Pejić said "Define, refine, constrict, package, and sell... No thank you. I would like to live in a world where your gender, nationality, sexual orientation, and, above all, financial status didn't affect the opportunities you are given in life, the way you're treated by others, and your overall freedom. In a world like that, I wouldn't be given such a complex definition"<ref>[http://www.out.com/fashion/2011/11/24/catching-andrej-pejic "Catching Up With Andrej Pejic"], Out.com, Nov 2011</ref>. When pressed in an interview to reveal whether she saw a girl or boy in the mirror growing up, Pejić replied simply, "I saw a child"<ref name=pejicabc></ref>. | During the years before she came out as a woman, she used to self-identify as neither male nor female, which was widely reported by the media. She had modeled both men's wear and women's wear, and would defy interviewers' attempts to label her with a gender. In 2011, in response to a question about how she self-defines, Pejić said "Define, refine, constrict, package, and sell... No thank you. I would like to live in a world where your gender, nationality, sexual orientation, and, above all, financial status didn't affect the opportunities you are given in life, the way you're treated by others, and your overall freedom. In a world like that, I wouldn't be given such a complex definition"<ref>[http://www.out.com/fashion/2011/11/24/catching-andrej-pejic "Catching Up With Andrej Pejic"], Out.com, Nov 2011</ref>. When pressed in an interview to reveal whether she saw a girl or boy in the mirror growing up, Pejić replied simply, "I saw a child"<ref name=pejicabc></ref>. | ||
==James Clifford Shupe== | |||
James Clifford Shupe (born 1963) is a retired United States Army soldier who in 2016 became the first person in the United States to obtain [[legal gender|legal recognition]] of a nonbinary gender. In early 2019, he released a statement explaining that he had "returned to [his] male birth sex". He has become a vocal critic of transgender rights and the very concept of [[gender identity]], blaming "out-of-control, transgender activism" for making transition too easy.<ref name="dail_IWas">{{Cite web |title=I Was America’s First ‘Nonbinary’ Person. It Was All a Sham. |author=James Shupe |work=The Daily Signal |date=10 March 2019 |access-date=3 April 2020 |url= https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/03/10/i-was-americas-first-non-binary-person-it-was-all-a-sham/}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Shupe |first1=James |title=Jamie Shupe Name Change: Please Address Me As James Shupe Now |url=https://jamieshupe.wordpress.com/2019/03/25/jamie-shupe-name-change-please-address-me-as-james-shupe-now/ |website=Website Of James Shupe |accessdate=2019-03-30 |language=en |date=2019-03-25}}</ref><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 James Shupe |language=en |date=26 January 2019}}</ref> | |||
==Billy Dee Williams== | ==Billy Dee Williams== | ||