"[3] In 2022, she published a statement reclaiming her trans identity and condemning the anti-trans movement due to her story being used to push conversion therapy.

[1] Toward the end of her military service, Shupe's gender dysphoria began intensifying, and she started experimenting with wearing women's clothing at home.

Shupe spoke at a Family Policy Alliance event, and was then invited to a secretive group of anti-transgender-rights politicians led by Fred Deutsch.

[16][17] In 2021, she began using the name "Lisa Shupe", and in 2022 published a statement that during her detransition she helped sell conversion therapy to the public while privately self-medicating with estrogen, which resulted in a life-threatening blood clot.

[2] In March 2023, Shupe leaked over 2,600 pages of emails, spanning a period from 2017 to 2023, between her and a group of what Mother Jones calls "representatives of a network of activists and organizations at the forefront of the anti-trans movement".

[5][6][18] In 2023, Shupe self-published an autofiction novel titled "AI Machinations: Tangled Webs and Typed Words" that was extensively written using ChatGPT artificial intelligence software.

The USCO acknowledged Shupe as the author of the "selection, coordination, and arrangement of text generated by artificial intelligence,"[20] yet did not extend copyright protection to the actual sentences and paragraphs themselves.

[19] The case has attracted commentary from observers who highlight the difficulties faced by the USCO in determining how to handle copyrights for works that incorporate AI.