#733 - The first legally recognized non-binary person: “It was all a sham” (James Shupe)
Theology in the Raw
Theology in the Raw
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🗓️ 8 April 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
On episode #733 of Theology in the Raw Preston has a conversation with James Shupe. On June 10, 2016 in Portland, Oregon, Jamie Shupe became the first person in the United States to have their sex legally designated as non-binary. On November 1, 2016, Jamie Shupe became the first person in the history of Washington, D.C. to be issued an official document with a sex other than male or female when their birth certificate was issued as “unknown” as a result of their non-binary sex change court order. Shupe has since reclaimed his birth sex of male and now resides in Ocala, Florida. Jamie Shupe retired from the U.S. Army as a decorated Sergeant First Class (E-7) after 18 years of honorable military service.
For more about Shupe visit: https://jamieshupe.wordpress.com
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, podcast listeners. Welcome to Theology and Ron. I got a couple quick |
| 0:04.8 | announcements before we get into our show today, which I'm so excited about |
| 0:08.1 | the show, not the announcements. Well I'm kind of excited about the announcements too, |
| 0:12.0 | but more excited about the show that you're going to listen to you. This is a very |
| 0:15.5 | Intriggy conversation. I can't wait for you to listen to this |
| 0:19.2 | But first I want to let you know that we are adding lots of speaking events to my schedule. |
| 0:25.0 | I will be in Grand Rapids in May, going back to Grand Rapids in May, just love that city. |
| 0:29.7 | I'll be in Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Richmond, Virginia, and New York City in September. |
| 0:35.0 | That's going to be a busy month. |
| 0:36.7 | Colorado Springs, Tomecula, and Minneapolis in October and November. |
| 0:42.0 | All those dates and times and details and yada yada yada |
| 0:45.6 | will be found at center for faith.com and go to the speaking events and you can |
| 0:50.1 | find out more details about those events it may take another week or so for those |
| 0:53.7 | to all be up on the website, but just if you live in those cities, then just keep a look out at |
| 0:58.2 | Center for Faith.com and go to the events page for more details. |
| 1:03.0 | Also, the Digital Leaders Forum on Faith, Sexuality, and Gender is out. |
| 1:08.0 | It is available if you go to Digital Leaders Forum.org, that's Digital Leaders Forum.org. It'll take you to the |
| 1:17.4 | landing page where you can preview the course for free and you can purchase the course you can watch a trailer to the course. The course is the most comprehensive course, online course, on faith, sexuality, and gender that's available. As far as I can tell, I've scoured the internet to see is there anything else out there like this, and currently there is not. |
| 1:37.0 | 22 video lessons, over eight hours of video content, pastoral panels, discussing ministry questions, lots of biblical theological teaching, |
| 1:46.7 | Q&A, interviews with LGBTQ Christians, and much, much more, that's Digital Leaders Forum |
| 1:52.4 | dot org to go preview the course for and much more that's digital leaders forum |
| 1:52.6 | dot org to go preview the course for free. |
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