#Elisa Rae Shupe

[vixdesl]

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Elisa Rae Shupe

a non-binary army veteran, one of the first to have their gender mark changed to an X is found hanging with a trans flag wrapped around them.

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Tahiry 'Tokyo' Broom

a transgender black woman who was shot and killed in the morning, targeted by a man who called various sex workers and transgender women the morning of.

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Sam Nordquist

a biracial transgender man that was found, had been lured to a motel by a woman he trusted, he was then abused sexually and tortured for weeks before he died, 5 people had to do with it and it's an ongoing investigation, they're trying to claim it's not a hate crime.

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[five-milfs-and-a-twink]

Elisa Shupe

I just came across the story of Elisa Shupe. Hardly any news outlets are reporting on them, and it just goes to show the way the deaths of transgender Americans are no longer taken seriously.

I'm urging you to read and share this.

Elisa Rae Shupe was a veteran and the first person to have their legal gender marked as X. Based on what I read, there seemed to be a lot of inconsistency with their political stances throughout their life, but their final message says everything about how they feel the nation has fallen.

They were found dead by suicide in a parking garage last month.

They had emailed their suicide note to many media sources, but none have published it at this time. It is only available on a blog, but I'm going to share it here:

Fuck You America!

I don’t want your hatred.

I don’t want the military decorations and medals you awarded me.

I don’t want your pension money for my distinguished military service and service-connected disabilities.

I don’t want your health care to treat the mental illnesses you caused.

I don’t want more psychiatric ward commitments to keep me alive in a nation that I despise.

I don’t want to be buried in any of your state or national cemetery’s for veterans and military retirees.

I don’t want to be buried anywhere on American soil.

I don’t want any military honors or ceremonies to mark my death.

I don’t want my ashes to be stored on American soil.

I want my ashes or remains to be spread or buried in international waters.

I don’t want your flag anywhere near my body, remains, or ashes.

I don’t want any members of my family other than my spouse to be on the vessel that disposes of my ashes or remains.

My death is not a surrender.

My death as a member of the third gender and transgender population does not mean you won.

It solely marks the end of our association.

You are not the land of the free.

You are not a country getting made great again.

Too much demonstrated hatred throughout your existence extinguishes any claim to previous greatness.

You are a cesspool of zealots that worship a god that does not and has not ever existed.

Enjoy your new royal family and third world dictator.

I refuse to participate any further.

Have that Nazi piece of shit Elon Musk and his DOGE henchmen deduct the savings from my $93,000 of federal pensions from your bankrupt coffers.

The white man decimated and massacred the indigenous populations of the third gender on the lands now called America. It was only fitting that a white person restored it.

You cannot erase non-binary and transgender people because you give birth to more of us each day.

Here's another article from someone who knew them personally: https://www.pghlesbian.com/2025/02/i-knew-elisa-rae-shupe-1963-2025-and-she-deserved-better/

Please share Elisa's story.

[sirpuntine]

Elisa Rae Shupe identified as nonbinary and used she/her pronouns 🏳️‍⚧️

If you, or someone you know, are struggling with their mental health, please reach out to your local intervention services. You are loved, and though it may not seem like it now, we have to hold tight to the hope that things will get better, if we help make it so. Please stay to see it with me.

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[kitkats-forthe-gays]

I feel like this should be on here.

Please reblog so it can reach more people. DONT FORGET THEM!!

[goblinofblogs]

I am non-binary. I am trans. You can’t erase us

TW: MENTIONS OF SUICIDE!!

i apologize if this triggers anyone but this is too important for me to NOT share, especially with it being so close to where i live. it’s really sad to hear that something like this has happened and i haven’t heard a single person talking about it, sad to say i probably would’ve never known about elisa without tiktok.

to any trans and nb people who may see this post, I SEE YOU. i see you, i acknowledge your existence, and i love you. and that will never change, no matter what people say or how many laws the government signs into order. I LOVE YOU and i admire your courage to be unapologetically you. nobody can erase your history, we won’t let them!

rest in power, elisa 🤍 never in vain.

[dewitty1]

unless the vet was black please don’t use Rest in Power, that is specific to the african american community. i agree with your message and hope elisa rests easy.

It was used in a TikTok from indigoskybird specific about them, which I why I copied it.

🤍💗💙🏳️‍⚧️

[tellnotalespod]

For those of you who have seen what’s going on for trans people in the UK today… hope you’re taking care of yourselves.

I rarely share the poetry I write because I have very little concept of whether or not it’s actually any good. But (quality aside) I feel very strongly about this one, inspired by Elisa Rae Shupe’s final words, and now feels an appropriate time to share it. I hope it can help convey why I refuse to feel hopeless about today’s ruling.

“You cannot erase non-binary and transgender people because you give birth to more of us each day” - Elisa Rae Shupe

[ajltheavacado]

I haven't seen anyone talk about Elisa Rae Shupe. A nonbinary veteran who had X as their gender marker, who had committed suicide on January 27th. I had found a video on tik tok that had their suicide note and I implore you to find it.

I am begging all of my trans and nonbinary siblings to please stay, and remember that surviving is rebelling.

Rest in Power, Elisa

[judedoyle]

At the newsletter, I wrote about repressed grief and trying to stave off meltdowns.

[thatstormygeek]

The leaker, a trans woman and former “detransition” activist named Elisa Rae Shupe, had reached out to me to offer access, and I had come away with a whole other story. ... Most important, it is a record of how Elisa Rae Shupe was crafted into a weapon; how her narrative was established, edited and eventually taken out of her control, even as her name appeared on testimonies, Supreme Court briefings and highly circulated op-eds. This is the making of a “detransitioner.” More like her are being made every day. 

In February 2019, Shupe contacted Abigail Shrier, author of the book Irreversible Damage,which argues that the “transgender craze” is “seducing our daughters” and causing vulnerable cis girls to transition due to social contagion. Though Shrier proposed a phone call, not much seems to have come of that conversation. Shupe made a slightly more successful pitch to now podcaster Katie Herzog, who at the time was a staff writer at The Stranger and reached out to Shupe multiple times via Twitter DM asking for interviews, but did not end up using any of Shupe’s quotes. In both cases, Shupe says, the roadblock was the same: Shrier and Herzog were “invested in selling detrans women, not males.”  “People like me are inferior sales tools,” Shupe tells me in an email. “Although some people will sympathize with narratives like the one that Laura Ingraham peddled, that I’m mentally ill, and instead of giving me therapy, the VA gave me hormones, etc., it’s not as good of a seller as a damaged young woman.” 

[thearchivaljinglebeast]

Elisa Rae Shupe. Share their story.

(This is not me, not my video)

[buttercupkg66]

A transgender activist dubbed America's first nonbinary person has tragically died by suicide after a long and storied battle with gender dysphoria.

Elisa Rae Shupe had a complex relationship with gender and over the course of a decade had transitioned, de-transitioned and re-transitioned in the public eye.

[giddlywinks]

It's so heartbreaking to hear this news, this story.

[pghlesbian]

It matters that trans folx Sam Nordquist AND Tahiry Broom AND Elisa Rae Shupe died - Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents