In the face of adversity, I have declared my right to define my existence and won that right. As a transgender person, I can no longer be accused of appropriating the identity of a cisgender female, because I have created my own, and been awarded the right to exist as that identity. But most importantly, my court victory has opened the door for all those like myself to also taste freedom from the gender binary.

The United States desperately needed a third sex classification of non-binary for all of the people such as myself that simply do not fit into the existing binary system of just male or female. As a transgender person who was forced to live as a male for nearly 50 years, and who then electively lived as a female for the following three years to alleviate my gender dysphoria, I have discovered that I am healthiest and best served by not being forcibly classified as either male or female against my will.