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REPORT: James 'Elisa Rae' Shupe Has Joined The Transgender Jonestown
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REPORT: James 'Elisa Rae' Shupe Has Joined The Transgender Jonestown

Did his recent 'life-saving' vaginoplasty fail to prevent su*c*de?

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Former Army sergeant Jamie Shupe gave up the American flag for a trans flag

James Clifford Shupe, aka Elisa Rae, who became the world’s first “legally nonbinary” person in 2016, reportedly hanged himself from the parking deck of the Syracuse, New York Veterans Affairs hospital last month. He was 61 years old.

Shupe is survived by a wife and a daughter. Shupe had been released from inpatient mental health treatment at the facility on 21 January after undergoing vaginoplasty just before the Christmas holiday.

During a brief period of sanity in 2021, Shupe criticized ‘gender identity’ ideology, calling himself a “transvestite” while disclosing his mental condition, autogynephilia, in Substack posts that he later deleted. He also appeared on two episodes of Benjamin Boyce’s podcast.

Shupe frequently revised his image through social media deletion. Now he has allegedly died the way he lived — “allegedly,” because confirmation of the identity of the body is still pending due to the political …

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