Author: Lisa Pollak
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Resisting Gender Verification from the Inside (aka what Jake Elsas did on his summer vacation)
In the summer of 1996, Jake Elsas didn’t try to hide the fact that he was volunteering at the Atlanta Olympics. But when people asked him what exactly his job was, Jake purposely kept the answer vague. “I was very cryptic most of the time, because I didn’t want to admit that there was a…