passport
date: label: date made
content: 1979-07
label: Associated Date
content: 1979
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A cancelled passport issued to Jennifer Lynn Englekirk in 1979 and used as a child while traveling with their family. Jordan Max-Ryan Englekirk was born intersex in 1972 and because he looked like a girl, grew up as Jennifer. Englekirk has personally identified as male for most of his life and growing up struggled with this dichotomy. Often bullied in school and berated by teachers and adults in his life, Englekirk finally made the transition to male in 2012, at 40 years old. He now lives as a man but during high school, while still living as Jennifer, Englekirk became a member of the girls’ softball team and soon was a leader on the diamond. Sports was an important outlet for creating his identity. Englekirk kept sports in his life as an adult and eventually became the first woman to ump at Cooperstown Little Majors Stadium for Little League tournament games.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Medicine
label: general subject association
content: Gender
label: general subject association
content: Travel
label: general subject association
content: Adoption
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2018.0169.03
label: accession number
content: 2018.0169
label: catalog number
content: 2018.0169.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: passport
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (outside material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 7/8 in x 3 7/16 in x 1/8 in; 12.3825 cm x 8.73125 cm x .3175 cm