letter
date: label: date made
content: 1986-01-23
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Five page letter written in January of 1986 from Jennifer Englekirk to "Bob," detailing struggles with gender, sexuality and religion. Englekirk was in junior high school at the time.
label: Description (Brief)
content: 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: Subject
content: LGBTQ Rights
label: Subject
content: LGBTQ
label: Subject
content: Gay Rights
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content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2018.0169.12
label: catalog number
content: 2018.0169.12
label: accession number
content: 2018.0169
objectType: label: Object Name
content: letter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper; graphite (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/2 in x 7 7/8 in; 26.67 cm x 20.0025 cm