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[[Christie Elan-Cane]] is a [[non-gendered]] activist based in the UK, | {{Infobox person | ||
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[[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> | |||
==Background== | ==Background== | ||
"''I have rejected the gendered role (mis)appropriated to me on my birth certificate although the gendered role remains on my birth certificate and is a factor on other items of personal identification as though it were fact. I do not feel a sense of identification with the other socially permissible gendered role that is strong or certain enough to make me want to transfer and become identified within that role... I use the title ‘Pr’ which is an abbreviation of Person and pronounced “per”. I also use ‘per’ (pronounced as spelt) as the third person singular pronoun for non gender-specific''" - from Christies Livejournal profile | "''I have rejected the gendered role (mis)appropriated to me on my birth certificate although the gendered role remains on my birth certificate and is a factor on other items of personal identification as though it were fact. I do not feel a sense of identification with the other socially permissible gendered role that is strong or certain enough to make me want to transfer and become identified within that role... I use the title ‘Pr’ which is an abbreviation of Person and pronounced “per”. I also use ‘per’ (pronounced as spelt) as the third person singular pronoun for non gender-specific''" - from Christies Livejournal profile <ref name="LJprofile" /> | ||
"''I really wish that people would not refer of my non-gendered identity as my ”gender identity”. I am non-gendered. I have a core identity that is as real and valid as the core identity of any gendered person but it is not a gender identity. It is an identity.''" [http://elancane.livejournal.com/2011/02/02/] | "''I really wish that people would not refer of my non-gendered identity as my ”gender identity”. I am non-gendered. I have a core identity that is as real and valid as the core identity of any gendered person but it is not a gender identity. It is an identity.''" [http://elancane.livejournal.com/2011/02/02/] | ||
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Excerpt from 'Im Just A Sweet Transgenderist', The Independant 27th March 1995 [http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/im-just-a-sweet-transgenderist-1613010.html]; | Excerpt from 'Im Just A Sweet Transgenderist', The Independant 27th March 1995 [http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/im-just-a-sweet-transgenderist-1613010.html]; | ||
: ''"...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 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."'' | : ''"...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 2000 Christie spoke at the Sixth International [[Gender dysphoria]] Conference in Manchester, England (GENDYS 2K), reading from per work entitled 'The Fallacy of the Myth of Gender' [http://www.gender.org.uk/conf/2000/elancane.htm]. Christie began documenting per activism via per livejournal account in 2008. Initial campaign issues focused on the then upcoming 2011 UK census, the introduction of a Parliamentary Bill to recognise non-gendered identity, and changing the requirement of patients to state either a male or female gender by the automated patient check-in facility at Christies local health care centre [http://elancane.livejournal.com/2008/07/24/]. Making further use of online networking opportunities to publicise per activism, Christie created a Youtube account in 2011 [http://www.youtube.com/user/Christie170]. | In 2000 Christie spoke at the Sixth International [[Gender dysphoria]] Conference in Manchester, England (GENDYS 2K), reading from per work entitled 'The Fallacy of the Myth of Gender' [http://www.gender.org.uk/conf/2000/elancane.htm]. Christie began documenting per activism via per livejournal account in 2008. Initial campaign issues focused on the then upcoming 2011 UK census, the introduction of a Parliamentary Bill to recognise non-gendered identity, and changing the requirement of patients to state either a male or female gender by the automated patient check-in facility at Christies local health care centre [http://elancane.livejournal.com/2008/07/24/]. Making further use of online networking opportunities to publicise per activism, Christie created a Youtube account in 2011 [http://www.youtube.com/user/Christie170]. | ||
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In 2009 Christie announced on per LiveJournal that per had set up an online petition at the Number 10 Downing Street website [http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/notmaleorfemale/] with the aim “to end the systematic erasure of those who do not exist within the artificial binary of male and female” [http://elancane.livejournal.com/2009/11/23/]. | In 2009 Christie announced on per LiveJournal that per had set up an online petition at the Number 10 Downing Street website [http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/notmaleorfemale/] with the aim “to end the systematic erasure of those who do not exist within the artificial binary of male and female” [http://elancane.livejournal.com/2009/11/23/]. | ||
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''" | 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> | ||
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*[http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/in-support-of-‘x’-passports-in-the-united-kingdom.html Petition started by Christie Elan-Cane "in support of ‘X’ passports in the United Kingdom"] | *[http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/in-support-of-‘x’-passports-in-the-united-kingdom.html Petition started by Christie Elan-Cane "in support of ‘X’ passports in the United Kingdom"] | ||
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