https://xtramagazine.com/power/detransition-terf-movement-elisa-shupe-247592
What a beautiful piece of propaganda this is.
Shupe is the man who was the first person in the US to get a non-binary certificate but then became a detransitioner and wrote an article in 2019 in which he admits it was all a sham. We're talking about a veteran with multiple types of mental illness who is an open autogynephile.
According to this 2023 march 15 article, Shupe became uncomfortable with right-wing anti-trans activists influencing him and gender critical women treating him as the pervert he is.
It is also the typical hardcore DARVO and projecting we are used to from TRAs. At the end of the article it is said Shupe enjoyed being detrans because he received so much attention and adoration at the beginning. Now that's hilarious because the 2019 article starts with him saying how becoming non-binary got him insane amount of fame in such a short time, secondly, detransitioners receive an endless inflow of hate and victim blaming from all sides.
There is a long history of extremist movements recruiting damaged and isolated individuals to do their dirty work.
Complete projection here from a crusader of the trans body mutilation cult.
Yet Shupe’s crusade wrecked her life, and in the end, the movement that elevated her also chewed her up and spat her out without hesitation. There was no big fuck-you-I’m-out moment for Shupe, no definitive point when she knew it was over; the tide just turned on her. A fellow TERF named Karen Davis started publicly attacking Shupe for her supposed autogynephilia. Shupe says she received death threats.
“I was gradually waking up to the fact that, you know, I was just a useful idiot, are the two words I would use,” Shupe tells me. “I got the vibe that they wanted me to help them, they wanted me to use them, but they wouldn’t trust somebody like me around their kids.”
Well no shit we don't trust men like him. In his 2019 article he admits he spent years watching porn and when he couldn't sculpt his wife into the "perfect woman" he decided to become that himself.
She does not expect things to get easier now that she’s leaked the emails: “I burned bridges on both sides of the aisle. So, at this point, I’m just all alone in my life,” she says. The person she’s paying attention to now is an eighteen-year-old named Chloe Cole. Cole, who recently filmed an interview with Jordan Peterson, and has been thanked by name in Ron DeSantis’s Florida State of the State address, is another “detransitioner,” and as Shupe has exited the scene, Cole’s star has been steadily on the rise. Shupe worries that Cole is being manipulated. She thinks Cole’s mental health might be worse than she lets on.
“She’s like I was. She’s a younger clone of me,” Elisa Rae Shupe says. “My worry is, what’s going to happen to her when all the attention is withdrawn?”
I too am worried about Cloe being a "detrans activist" at such a young age. But maybe, just maybe, she wouldn't have to talk about the physical harm being done to kids like her (she had testosterone at 12, breasts removed at 15) if sick cultists like you didn't advocate for child mutilation??? Not a middle aged AGP comparing himself to a 18yo woman who was a victim of medical abuse as a child...
During my phone call with Shupe last week, I quote that line back to her. She, too, was seeking HRT at the time; she knew that gender-affirming healthcare was life-saving, because she had become suicidal when she lost access to it. It is the question I still can’t wrap my head around: how could Shupe try to ban something for others if she knew that losing it would kill her?
There is a long silence on the other end of the phone line.
“I don’t have an excuse for that,” Shupe says, eventually. “There is no excuse for that.”
There is no excuse, but maybe there are reasons. People with BPD are prone to “splitting,” seeing things as either pure good or pure evil; Shupe thinks that her disappointing early transition, combined with her BPD, caused her to believe that if transition wasn’t an absolute good for her, then it was an absolute evil for everyone. She’s working on that, she says; owning her own experiences, not projecting.
So not receiving anymore abnormal amounts of estrogen made him suicidal. Yeah, guess what, messing around with your hormone levels will do that! Doesn't mean you should start again. I can't believe how these people can't see how insane and dangerous their attitude is towards medicine. It really is tragic how this severely mentally ill man still doesn't seem to receive proper mental healthcare. It is quite clear being openly known for his autogynephilia was too much for him so he scurries right back to the people who will celebrate him for his fetish. I do feel a tiny bit of sympathy as he's clearly not well, but doing this after witnessing the sickening abuse of trans medicine, especially on children, I feel that's not excuse enough for his behaviour.
Edit: Mother Jones published the first hit piece about him on March 8 but I saw someone post on twitter that he's been switching back and forth multiple times already so it's not really something new? I didn't follow his story before but a GC man on twitter posted about it recently and probably others too.
Edit2: https://archive.md/0qwAS His diary about being an AGP if you're interested...
Edit3: https://archive.md/qtBMt His pinned post on twitter is him holding a sign "transgenderism mutilates children" and a woman actually compliments him saying he's lovely and all women want to cuddle him. In response he says she shouldn't put him on a pedestal because he still has a paraphilia which caused his wife great grief.
I wonder how many of those leaked emails are from people sharing their deepest secrets and darkest moments. Detransitioners, trans widows, on and on and on. And he’s betrayed their trust. Pervs truly have no shame.