Intersex
Intersex people are individuals born with any of several sex characteristics including chromosome patterns, gonads, or genitals that, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, "do not fit typical bina ...
people are born with sex characteristics, such as
genitals
A sex organ (or reproductive organ) is any part of an animal or plant that is involved in sexual reproduction. The reproductive organs together constitute the reproductive system. In animals, the testis in the male, and the ovary in the female, a ...
,
gonads
A gonad, sex gland, or reproductive gland is a mixed gland that produces the gametes and sex hormones of an organism. Female reproductive cells are egg cells, and male reproductive cells are sperm. The male gonad, the testicle, produces sperm ...
and chromosome patterns that, according to the UN
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, commonly known as the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) or the United Nations Human Rights Office, is a department of the United Nations Secretariat, Se ...
, "do not fit the typical definitions for
male
Male (symbol: ♂) is the sex of an organism that produces the gamete (sex cell) known as sperm, which fuses with the larger female gamete, or ovum, in the process of fertilization.
A male organism cannot reproduce sexually without access to ...
or
female
Female (Venus symbol, symbol: ♀) is the sex of an organism that produces the large non-motile ovum, ova (egg cells), the type of gamete (sex cell) that fuses with the Sperm, male gamete during sexual reproduction.
A female has larger gamet ...
bodies".
Intersex people have many different
gender identities
Gender identity is the personal sense of one's own gender. Gender identity can correlate with a person's assigned sex or can differ from it. In most individuals, the various biological determinants of sex are congruent, and consistent with the i ...
,
and so there is no presumption that people on this list have any particular sex assigned at birth, nor any particular gender identity.
This list consists of well-known intersex people. The individual listings note the subject's main occupation or source of notability.
Notable intersex people
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Carlett Brown Angianlee, Naval officer, considered likely to be the first African American to undergo SRS.
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Eden Atwood
Eden Atwood is an American jazz singer and actress. She is the daughter of composer Hubbard Atwood and the granddaughter of the novelist A. B. Guthrie Jr.
Career
Atwood was born in Memphis, Tennessee. When she was five, her parents got a divorc ...
, U.S. jazz musician, actor, and an advocate for the civil rights of people born with intersex traits.
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Kitty Anderson, Icelandic intersex activist who regularly engages in advocacy/policy work and is the co-chair of
OII Europe.
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Karl M. Baer
Karl M. Baer (20 May 1885 – 26 June 1956) was a German-Israeli author, social worker, reformer, suffragist and Zionist. He came out as a trans man in 1904. In December 1906, he became the first transgender person to undergo sex reassignment ...
(1885–1956), German-Israeli author, social worker, suffragette and Zionist.
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Nubia Barahona, a ten-year-old American girl murdered in 2011.
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Herculine Barbin
Herculine Adélaïde Barbin, later known as Abel Barbin (November 8, 1838 – February 1868), was a French intersex person who was assigned female at birth and raised in a convent, but was later reclassified as male by a court of law, after an aff ...
, the
19th century memoirs of this French intersex person were published by
Michel Foucault
Paul-Michel Foucault (, ; ; 15 October 192625 June 1984) was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, writer, political activist, and literary critic. Foucault's theories primarily address the relationship between power and knowledge, and how ...
in 1980. Barbin's birthday, November 8, is now observed as
Intersex Day of Remembrance
Intersex Day of Remembrance, also known as Intersex Solidarity Day, is an internationally observed civil awareness day designed to highlight issues faced by intersex people. It marks the birthday of Herculine Barbin, a French intersex person whos ...
.
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Janik Bastien-Charlebois
Janik Bastien-Charlebois is an intersex sociology professor, and advocate for intersex rights. She teaches at the Université du Québec à Montréal, and her areas of study include cultural democracy, testimony, epistemology, homophobia and fem ...
, Quebecois sociologist, researcher and activist.
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Max Beck
Max Beck (1966January 12, 2008) was an American intersex advocate, active in the now-defunct Intersex Society of North America (ISNA). Max participated in the first known public demonstration against human rights violations on intersex people, w ...
, U.S. activist and participant in the demonstration on October 26, 1996, that led to the establishment of
Intersex Awareness Day
Intersex Awareness Day is an internationally observed awareness day each October 26, designed to highlight human rights issues faced by intersex people.
History
The event marks the first public demonstration by intersex people in North America ...
.
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Aleksander Berezkin (), Russian intersex immigrants activist with
Klinefelter syndrome
Klinefelter syndrome (KS), also known as 47,XXY, is an aneuploid genetic condition where a male has an additional copy of the X chromosome. The primary features are infertility and small, poorly functioning testicles. Usually, symptoms are su ...
.
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Maddie Blaustein
Madeleine Joan Blaustein (born Adam Blaustein, October 9, 1960 – December 11, 2008), also known as Kendra Bancroft, was an American voice actress and comic writer who was known for her voice acting work for 4Kids Entertainment, DuArt Film an ...
, American voice actor and comic creator known for her roles as
Meowth
Meowth ( or , known as in the original Japanese language, Japanese version) is a List of Pokémon, Pokémon species in Nintendo and Game Freak's ''Pokémon'' franchise. Created by Ken Sugimori, Meowth first appeared in the video games Pokémon ...
in ''
Pokémon
(an abbreviation for in Japan) is a Japanese media franchise managed by The Pokémon Company, founded by Nintendo, Game Freak, and Creatures (company), Creatures, the owners of the trademark and copyright of the franchise.
In terms of ...
'' and
E-123 Omega
The ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' video game franchise began in 1991 with the game ''Sonic the Hedgehog (1991 video game), Sonic the Hedgehog'' for the Sega Genesis, which pitted a blue anthropomorphism, anthropomorphic hedgehog named Sonic the Hedgeh ...
in the ''
Sonic the Hedgehog
is a Japanese video game series and media franchise created by Sega. The franchise follows Sonic, an anthropomorphic blue hedgehog who battles the evil Doctor Eggman, a mad scientist. The main ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' games are platformers mo ...
'' series, content creator for ''
Second Life
''Second Life'' is an online multimedia platform that allows people to create an avatar for themselves and then interact with other users and user created content within a multi player online virtual world. Developed and owned by the San Fra ...
''.
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Tony Briffa, Australian intersex and human rights activist; world's first out intersex Mayor and first publicly elected out intersex person.
Current co-executive director of
Intersex Human Rights Australia
Intersex Human Rights Australia (IHRA) is a voluntary organisation for intersex people that promotes the human rights and bodily autonomy of intersex people in Australia, and provides education and information services. Established in 2009 and i ...
, and Vice-President and former President of the
Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome Support Group Australia
Intersex Peer Support Australia (IPSA), also known as the Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome Support Group Australia, is possibly the oldest known intersex organization, established in 1985. It provides peer and family support, information and advo ...
.
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Alec Butler
Alec Butler (born Audrey Butler; 1959) is a Canadian playwright and filmmaker.
Life and career
Butler was born in 1959, and is two-spirit, non-binary and intersex. Butler uses ''they''/''them'' and ''he''/''him'' pronouns. Assigned female ...
, Canadian playwright and filmmaker.
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Mauro Cabral
Mauro Cabral Grinspan, also known as Mauro Cabral, is an Argentinian intersex and trans activist, who serves as the executive director of GATE. A signatory of the Yogyakarta Principles, his work focuses on the reform of medical protocols and law ...
,
Argentinian
Argentines (mistakenly translated Argentineans in the past; in Spanish (masculine) or ( feminine)) are people identified with the country of Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Argentines, ...
intersex activist, writer, co-director of
GATE
A gate or gateway is a point of entry to or from a space enclosed by walls. The word derived from old Norse "gat" meaning road or path; But other terms include ''yett and port''. The concept originally referred to the gap or hole in the wall ...
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Jeff Cagandahan
Jeff Cagandahan is a prominent Filipino intersex man and intersex human rights activist. Raised female and diagnosed with congenital adrenal hyperplasia, Cagandahan successfully petitioned the Philippine courts to change name and sex markers, bec ...
, a Filipino
intersex human rights
Intersex people are born with sex characteristics, such as chromosomes, gonads, or genitals, that, according to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, "do not fit typical binary notions of male or female bodies."
Intersex peop ...
activist at
Intersex Asia
Intersex Asia is a pan-Asian intersex human rights organization, established in 2018 and registered in Taiwan.
History
Intersex Asia was established at the First Asian Intersex Forum on February 10, 2018, in Bangkok, Thailand. The forum brough ...
who successful appealed for a change of name and gender on his birth certificate.
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Lady Colin Campbell
Georgia Arianna, Lady Colin Campbell (''née'' Ziadie, born 17 August 1949), also known as Lady C, is a British Jamaican author, socialite, and television personality who has published seven books about the British royal family. They include b ...
, UK author and socialite.
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Morgan Carpenter
Morgan Carpenter is a bioethicist, intersex activist and researcher. In 2013 he created the intersex flag, and became president of Intersex Human Rights Australia (formerly OII Australia). He is now a co-executive director. In 2015, he cofounded ...
, Australian intersex activist who created the modern intersex flag which features a purple circle and yellow background, he is the co-executive director of
Intersex Human Rights Australia
Intersex Human Rights Australia (IHRA) is a voluntary organisation for intersex people that promotes the human rights and bodily autonomy of intersex people in Australia, and provides education and information services. Established in 2009 and i ...
.
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Eleno de Céspedes
Eleno de Céspedes, also known as Elena de Céspedes (1545 – ''died after'' 1588), was a Spanish surgeon who married a man and later a woman, and was tried by the Spanish Inquisition. Céspedes may have been an intersex and/or transgender person ...
, a 16th-century intersex person in Spain.
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Dutee Chand
Dutee Chand (born 3 February 1996) is an Indian professional sprinter and current national champion in the women's 100 metres event. She is the first Indian to win a gold medal in 100m race in a global competition. She is the third Indian woman ...
, Indian athlete who successfully challenged
IAAF
World Athletics, formerly known as the International Amateur Athletic Federation (from 1912 to 2001) and International Association of Athletics Federations (from 2001 to 2019, both abbreviated as the IAAF) is the international governing body for ...
regulations preventing her from running.
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Cheryl Chase, also known as Bo Laurent, U.S. intersex activist and founder of the
Intersex Society of North America
The Intersex Society of North America (ISNA) was a non-profit advocacy group founded in 1993 by Cheryl Chase to end shame, secrecy, and unwanted genital surgeries.Matthews, Karen (Oct 22, 2000). Debate Grows Over Using Surgery on Infants with Amb ...
.
[Weil, Elizabeth (September, 2006)]
What if It's (Sort of) a Boy and (Sort of) a Girl?
''The New York Times Magazine
''The New York Times Magazine'' is an American Sunday magazine Supplement (publishing), supplement included with the Sunday edition of ''The New York Times''. It features articles longer than those typically in the newspaper and has attracted man ...
''.
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Hiker Chiu
Hiker Chiu (; born 1966) is a Taiwanese intersex human rights activist who founded Oii-Chinese in 2008 and cofounded Intersex Asia in 2018.
Early life
Chiu did not fully develop the secondary sexual characteristics expected of women during his/h ...
, founder of
Oii-Chinese
Oii-Chinese (國際陰陽人組織 — 中文版) is an intersex advocacy and support group and the Chinese-language affiliate of Organisation Intersex International. Oii-Chinese, founded by Hiker Chiu in 2008, is active in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and ...
.
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Caroline Cossey
Caroline Cossey (born 31 August 1954) is a British model and actress who often worked under the name Tula, which she also used for two memoirs. She appeared in the 1981 James Bond film '' For Your Eyes Only.'' Following her appearance in the f ...
, English model.
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Cary Gabriel Costello, U.S. associate professor of sociology and advocate for transgender and intersex rights.
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Roberta Cowell, British racing driver and pilot.
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Lisa Lee Dark
Lisa Lee Dark (born Lee Dark; 16 April 1981) is a Welsh opera singer, songwriter, and voice actress.
Early life
Lisa Lee Dark was born Lee Dark in the Clydach area of Swansea on 16 April 1981. Her distant relatives include Italian opera sing ...
, Welsh opera singer and voice actress.
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Georgiann Davis
Georgiann Davis is an associate professor of sociology at the University of New Mexico and author of the book ''Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis''. Davis formerly held similar positions at University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Southern Il ...
, U.S. sociology scholar and researcher on intersex issues.
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Vaginal Davis
Vaginal Davis (born in Los Angeles, California) is an American performing artist, painter, independent curator, composer, filmmaker and writer. Born intersex and raised in South Central, Los Angeles, Davis gained notoriety in New York during the ...
, U.S. genderqueer performing artist, painter, composer and writer.
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Fiore de Henriquez
Fiore de Henriquez (1921-2004) was an Italian-British sculptor.
Personal life and education
De Henriquez was born in Trieste to a father descended from Spanish noblemen of the Habsburg court in Vienna; her mother was of Turkish and Russian orig ...
(1921–2004), Italian-British sculptor.
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Tiger Devore
Tiger Devore, previously known as Howard Devore and Tiger Howard Devore, is a clinical psychologist, sex therapist, and spokesperson on intersex issues. He is a former member of the now defunct Intersex Society of North America. The historian Alice ...
, U.S. clinical psychologist, educator on intersex issues since 1984, appears in the short film ''
XXXY'' (2000).
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Foekje Dillema
Foekje Dillema (18 September 1926 – 5 December 2007) was a Dutch track and field athlete.
Biography
Dillema was named "athlete of the match" in 1949 after winning the 100 metres and 200 metres race during a tournament in London. She was an im ...
(1926–2007), Dutch track and field athlete.
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Arisleyda Dilone
Arisleyda Dilone is a director and actress. She is best known for her work on the documentary films ''Mami y Yo y mi Gallito'' and ''Two White Cars''.
Life and career
Arisleyda was born in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic and now l ...
, U.S. Latina film director and actor.
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Betsy Driver
Betsy Driver (born 1964) is the mayor of Flemington, New Jersey, and an advocate for intersex human rights and awareness. She is the first openly intersex person to be elected to office in the United States.
Early life
Driver was born in Buffalo, ...
, Mayor of Flemington, New Jersey; intersex activist and first intersex elected official in the United States.
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Karl Dürrge (also known as Maria Dorothea Derrier: 1780–1835), Prussian intersex man and human subject in medical research.
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Lili Elbe
Lili Ilse Elvenes (28 December 1882 – 13 September 1931), better known as Lili Elbe, was a Danish painter and transgender woman, and among the early recipients of sex reassignment surgery. She was a successful painter under her birth name Eina ...
(1882–1931), Danish transgender and intersex woman, one of the earliest transgender women to receive sex reassignment surgery.
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Florian-Ayala Fauna
Florian-Ayala Fauna is an American artist, musician, poet, and music producer. Fauna is the main member of the post-industrial music project uncertain.
Personal life
Florian-Ayala Fauna was born in Norfolk, Virginia. At age 5, Fauna moved to ...
, American artist, musician, and music producer.
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Favorinus
Favorinus (c. 80 – c. 160 AD) was a Roman sophist and academic skeptic philosopher who flourished during the reign of Hadrian and the Second Sophistic.
Early life
He was of Gaulish ancestry, born in Arelate (Arles). He received a refin ...
of Arelate (c. 80 – c. 160 AD), a Roman
sophist
A sophist ( el, σοφιστής, sophistes) was a teacher in ancient Greece in the fifth and fourth centuries BC. Sophists specialized in one or more subject areas, such as philosophy, rhetoric, music, athletics, and mathematics. They taught ' ...
and
philosopher
A philosopher is a person who practices or investigates philosophy. The term ''philosopher'' comes from the grc, φιλόσοφος, , translit=philosophos, meaning 'lover of wisdom'. The coining of the term has been attributed to the Greek th ...
who flourished during the reign of
Hadrian
Hadrian (; la, Caesar Trâiānus Hadriānus ; 24 January 76 – 10 July 138) was Roman emperor from 117 to 138. He was born in Italica (close to modern Santiponce in Spain), a Roman ''municipium'' founded by Italic settlers in Hispania B ...
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Fernanda Fernández (1755–unknown), Spanish intersex person.
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Sir Ewan Forbes (1912–1991), UK noble, formerly Elizabeth Forbes-Sempill and 11th Baronet of Craigievar.
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Crystal Frasier, American artist and game designer, and also a
trans woman
A trans woman or a transgender woman is a woman who was assigned male at birth. Trans women have a female gender identity, may experience gender dysphoria, and may transition; this process commonly includes hormone replacement therapy and so ...
.
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River Gallo
River Gallo is a Salvadoran-American filmmaker, actor, model, and intersex rights activist. They wrote, directed, and acted in the 2019 short film ''Ponyboi'', which is the first film to feature an openly intersex actor playing an intersex pers ...
, Salvadoran-American filmmaker, actor, model, and intersex rights activist.
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Dan Christian Ghattas
Dan Christian Ghattas is an intersex activist, university lecturer and author who co-founded OII Europe in 2012 and is now executive director. In 2013, he authored Human Rights between the Sexes, a first comparative international analysis of the h ...
, German activist, historian and author of ''
Human Rights between the Sexes
''Human Rights between the Sexes'' is an analysis of the human rights of intersex people in 12 countries. It was written by Dan Christian Ghattas of the Internationalen Vereinigung Intergeschlechtlicher Menschen' (the Organisation Intersex Interna ...
'', a first international comparative study of the human rights of intersex people and executive director of
OII Europe.
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Gottlieb Göttlich
Gottlieb Göttlich (born Marie Rosine Göttlich, March 6, 1798) was an intersex man in the 1800s who became well-known for his condition, as it was the first time many medical practitioners had seen such a case.
Early life
Göttlich was born Mar ...
(1798–unknown), German medical research subject.
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Seven Graham
Seven Graham is a British intersex activist, comedian, filmmaker and playwright, and drug addiction counsellor. He was a member of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs and is a co-founder of the Amy Winehouse Foundation. In recognition o ...
(1969), activist, comedian, filmmaker and playwright, and drug addiction counsellor.
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Sarah Gronert
Sarah Gronert (born 6 July 1986) is a German former professional tennis player. She won a total of ten titles on the ITF Women's Circuit in her career and her best WTA ranking of 164 came on 14 May 2012.
Intersex condition
Gronert was born inte ...
, German tennis player.
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Sally Gross (1953–2014), South African intersex, anti-apartheid and Israel/Palestine human rights activist; secured first mention of intersex in anti-discrimination law.
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Thomas(ine) Hall
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, a person of indeterminate gender in 17th-century colonial Virginia.
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Bonnie Hart
Bonnie Hart is an Australian artist, film maker, and intersex human rights activist, born with androgen insensitivity syndrome and president of Intersex Peer Support Australia. Hart performs nationally and internationally, and speaks on interse ...
, Australian multi-disciplinary artist and president of the
Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome Support Group Australia
Intersex Peer Support Australia (IPSA), also known as the Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome Support Group Australia, is possibly the oldest known intersex organization, established in 1985. It provides peer and family support, information and advo ...
.
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Phoebe Hart
Phoebe Hart is an Australian filmmaker, lecturer and intersex rights activist, born with Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome. Hart lectures in film, television and digital media at the Queensland University of Technology, and is principal of Hartflic ...
, Australian filmmaker and director of ''
Orchids, My Intersex Adventure
''Orchids, My Intersex Adventure'' is an auto-biographicalATOM Award descriptio"First Hand Films" ''Interview with Phoebe Hart'', Melbourne, Australia. Retrieved 26 October 2010 2010 documentary about one woman's struggle to understand her own in ...
'', a 2010 auto-biographical documentary.
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Miriam van der Have
Miriam van der Have is an intersex human rights activist and woman with androgen insensitivity syndrome. She is a co-founder and co-chair of OII Europe e.V in 2015, co-founder and managing director of NNID Foundation in the Netherlands and memb ...
, Dutch activist, co-chair of
OII Europe and director of Nederlands Netwerk intersekse/DSD.
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Francis Heaulme, a French serial killer with
Klinefelter syndrome
Klinefelter syndrome (KS), also known as 47,XXY, is an aneuploid genetic condition where a male has an additional copy of the X chromosome. The primary features are infertility and small, poorly functioning testicles. Usually, symptoms are su ...
.
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Morgan Holmes
Morgan Holmes is a Canadian sociologist, author, and a professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario. She is also an intersex activist and writer, and former member of Intersex Society of North America. Holmes participated in the first public ...
, Canadian activist, professor of sociology and author of several books on intersex including ''Critical Intersex''.
[Holmes M. (2002). Rethinking the Meaning and Management of Intersexuality. Sexualities, 159–180."]
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Juliana Huxtable
Juliana Huxtable (born December 29, 1987) is an American artist, writer, performer, DJ, and co-founder of the New York-based nightlife project Shock Value. Huxtable has exhibited and performed at a number of venues including Reena Spaulings Fine ...
. U.S. artist and writer.
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Natasha Jiménez
Natasha Jiménez is a trans and intersex activist and author who is currently the General Coordinator for MULABI, Latin American Space for Sexualities and Rights, the first host of the Intersex Secretariat for ILGA. She is an advisory board member ...
, Costa Rican and Latin American intersex and trans activist.
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Alex Jürgen
Alex Jürgen (born September 7, 1976) is an Austrian intersex activist. Jürgen was the first person in Austria to receive a birth certificate and passport with legal recognition of non-binary gender after having fought for it in court.
Life
A ...
, Austrian intersex activist.
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Julius Kaggwa
Julius Kaggwa is a prominent Ugandan intersex and transgender activist and executive director of intersex support organization ''Support Initiative for People with atypical sex Development'' (SIPD). In 2010, Kaggwa was a joint winner of the Human R ...
, award-winning Ugandan activist.
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John Kenley
John Kenley (February 20, 1906 – October 23, 2009) was an American theatrical producer who pioneered the use of television stars in summer stock productions. In 1950, he was the first producer to desegregate live theater in Washington, DC. ...
, pioneering U.S. theatrical producer.
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Ewa Kłobukowska
Ewa Janina Kłobukowska (born 1 October 1946) is a Polish former sprinter. She competed at the 1964 Olympics in the 4×100 m relay and 100 m sprint and won a gold and a bronze medal, respectively.[Emi Koyama
Emi Koyama (b. 1975) is a Japanese-American activist, artist, and independent scholar. Koyama's work discusses issues of feminism, intersex human rights, domestic violence, and sex work among many others. Koyama is best known for her 2000 essay "Th ...]
, Japanese-American internist at
Intersex Society of North America
The Intersex Society of North America (ISNA) was a non-profit advocacy group founded in 1993 by Cheryl Chase to end shame, secrecy, and unwanted genital surgeries.Matthews, Karen (Oct 22, 2000). Debate Grows Over Using Surgery on Infants with Amb ...
, co-founder of
Intersex Awareness Day
Intersex Awareness Day is an internationally observed awareness day each October 26, designed to highlight human rights issues faced by intersex people.
History
The event marks the first public demonstration by intersex people in North America ...
, and sex worker and trans feminist activist.
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Anton Kryzhanovsky (), Russian intersex rights activist and sound designer, open about living with
ovotestis
An ovotestis is a gonad with both testicular and ovarian aspects. In humans, ovotestes are an infrequent anatomical variation associated with gonadal dysgenesis. The only mammals where ovotestes are not symptomatic of an intersex variation are mole ...
.
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Irene Kuzemko (), Russian-Ukrainian intersex activist.
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Lê Văn Duyệt
Lê Văn Duyệt)., group=n (1763 or 1764 – 30 July 1832) was a Vietnamese general who helped Nguyễn Ánh—the future Emperor Gia Long—put down the Tây Sơn wars, unify Vietnam and establish the Nguyễn dynasty. After the Nguyễn came ...
,
Nguyen dynasty
Nguyễn () is the most common Vietnamese surname. Outside of Vietnam, the surname is commonly rendered without diacritics as Nguyen. Nguyên (元)is a different word and surname.
By some estimates 39 percent of Vietnamese people bear this su ...
general and high-ranking
mandarin
Mandarin or The Mandarin may refer to:
Language
* Mandarin Chinese, branch of Chinese originally spoken in northern parts of the country
** Standard Chinese or Modern Standard Mandarin, the official language of China
** Taiwanese Mandarin, Stand ...
in Vietnam.
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Bobby Joe Long
Robert Joseph "Bobby Joe" Long (October 14, 1953 – May 23, 2019) was an American serial killer and rapist who was executed by the state of Florida for the murder of Michelle Denise Simms. Long abducted, sexually assaulted, and murdered at lea ...
, a U.S. serial killer with
Klinefelter syndrome
Klinefelter syndrome (KS), also known as 47,XXY, is an aneuploid genetic condition where a male has an additional copy of the X chromosome. The primary features are infertility and small, poorly functioning testicles. Usually, symptoms are su ...
.
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Small Luk
Small Luk is the first intersex person to openly acknowledge her biological sex characteristics in Hong Kong. She was born with partial androgen insensitivity syndrome. Luk lived as a male for 36 years, and now lives as a woman. She founded the o ...
, intersex activist living in
Hong Kong
Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...
, founder of ''Beyond the Boundary – Knowing and Concerns Intersex''
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Gopi Shankar Madurai
Gopi Shankar Madurai, born 13 April 1991, is an Indian equal rights and Indigenous rights activist. Shankar was one of the youngest, and the first openly intersex and genderqueer statutory authority and one of the candidates to contest in 201 ...
, Indian, one of the founding members of Srishti Madurai and Intersex Asia, also the first openly
intersex
Intersex people are individuals born with any of several sex characteristics including chromosome patterns, gonads, or genitals that, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, "do not fit typical bina ...
and
genderqueer
Non-binary and genderqueer are umbrella terms for gender identities that are not solely male or femaleidentities that are outside the gender binary. Non-binary identities fall under the transgender umbrella, since non-binary people typically ...
person appointed in the public office with a position in par with Under Secretary to Government of India. Ex-Hindu Monk.
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Aprilio Manganang, an Indonesian volleyball player, reassigned male after retirement.
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Alex MacFarlane
Alex MacFarlane is an intersex person born with XXY sex chromosomes in Victoria, Australia. MacFarlane is believed to be the first holder of an indeterminate birth certificate and passport.
Birth certificate and passport
MacFarlane is believ ...
, first known holder of an Australian passport with an 'X' sex descriptor.
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Gabriel J. Martín, Spanish gay and intersex psychologist and author.
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Maria José Martínez-Patiño
Maria José Martínez-Patiño (born 10 July 1961) is a Spanish former hurdler, whose dismissal from the Spanish Olympic team in 1986 for failing the gender test is a notable moment in the history of sex verification in sports.
Martínez-Patiño wa ...
, a Spanish hurdler who was dismissed from competition in 1986 for failing a sex test.
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Santiago Mbanda Lima, the first publicly-visible intersex activist in Portugal.
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Sheena Metal, U.S. talk-show host.
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Mani Mitchell
Mani Bruce Mitchell (born 1953) is an intersex activist and counsellor from Wellington, New Zealand. In 2021, Mitchell was recognised as a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit.
Early life
Mitchell was born and raised in the central North ...
,
New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...
intersex activist, researcher/presenter of the movie ''
Intersexion
''Intersexion'' (2012) is a documentary about intersex people. The film was researched and presented by activist Mani Mitchell, New Zealand's first "out" intersex person. ''.
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Nthabiseng Mokoena, South African intersex activist.
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Iain Morland
Iain Morland (born 1978) is a British music technologist and author. He formerly lectured in cultural criticism at Cardiff University. His writings focus on issues of gender and sexuality, medical ethics, and science. In 2005, ''Times Higher Edu ...
, British author and music technologist.
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Esther Morris Leidolf
Esther Morris Leidolf is a US-based medical sociologist, an intersex activist, writer, the founder of the MRKH Organization, and was the board secretary for the Intersex Society of North America.
Career
Esther Morris Leidolf is a US-based med ...
, U.S. activist and founder of MRKH Organization, and author of ''The Missing Vagina Monologue''.
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Annet Negesa
Annet Negesa (born 24 April 1992) is a Ugandan former middle-distance runner who specialised in the 800 metres. She broke Ugandan national records in the 800 m and the 1500 metres as a teenager and was a three-time national champion at the ...
, Ugandan middle-distance runner.
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Maria Nikiforova
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, Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary.
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Francine Niyonsaba
Francine Niyonsaba (born May 5, 1993) is a Burundian runner, who specialized in the 800 metres and shifted to longer distances in 2019. She was the 2016 Rio Olympics silver medalist in the women's 800 metres. Her silver medal was the first Olympi ...
, Burundian 800 metres runner.
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AJ Odasso
AJ Odasso (born 1981) is an American queer, intersex, nonbinary author and poet with a published career dating back to 2005. They are also a six-time Hugo nominee in the Semi-Prozine category in their capacity as Senior Poetry Editor for the spe ...
, American author, editor, and poet.
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Hanne Gaby Odiele
Hanne Gaby Odiele (born 8 October 1988) is a Belgian model.
Early life
Odiele was born on 8 October 1988 in Kortrijk, Belgium. They were born with an intersex condition called androgen insensitivity syndrome.
As a child, Odiele underwent m ...
, Belgian model.
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Sogto Ochirov, Russian
intersex
Intersex people are individuals born with any of several sex characteristics including chromosome patterns, gonads, or genitals that, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, "do not fit typical bina ...
activist,
archer
Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In mo ...
and
shepherd
A shepherd or sheepherder is a person who tends, herds, feeds, or guards flocks of sheep. ''Shepherd'' derives from Old English ''sceaphierde (''sceap'' 'sheep' + ''hierde'' 'herder'). ''Shepherding is one of the world's oldest occupations, i ...
.
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Pidgeon Pagonis
Pidgeon Pagonis (born 1986) is an American intersex activist, writer, artist, and consultant. They are an advocate for intersex human rights and against nonconsensual intersex medical interventions.
Early life and education
Pagonis was born in ...
, U.S. intersex artist and activist, nominated as a 2015 Whitehouse LGBT Champion of Change.
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Dee Palmer
Dee Palmer (formerly David Palmer; born 2 July 1937) is an English composer, arranger, and keyboardist best known for having been a member of the progressive rock group Jethro Tull (band), Jethro Tull from 1976 to 1980 (although she had worked wi ...
, formerly David Palmer, English composer and keyboardist, best known for membership in
Jethro Tull.
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Pinki Pramanik
Pinki Pramanik (born 10 April 1986 in Purulia) is an Indian track and field athlete who specialises in the 400 metres and 800 metres. Pramanik had success with the national 4×400 metres relay team, winning silver at the 2006 Commonwealth Gam ...
, Indian track athlete.
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Casimir Pulaski
Kazimierz Michał Władysław Wiktor Pułaski of the Ślepowron coat of arms (; ''Casimir Pulaski'' ; March 4 or March 6, 1745 Makarewicz, 1998 October 11, 1779) was a Polish nobleman, soldier, and military commander who has been called, tog ...
, Polish-American military commander thought to have an intersex trait.
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Kristian Ranđelović, Serbian and Balkan intersex and transgender activist.
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Heinrich Ratjen (also known as Dora Ratjen) (1918–2008), German athlete.
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Jemma Redmond
Jemma Redmond (16 March 1978 – 16 August 2016) was an Irish biotechnology pioneer and innovator. She was a co-founder of 3D bio-printing firm Ourobotics, developers of the first-ever ten-material bio-printer. Redmond designed a way of keeping ...
(1978–2016), Irish biotechnologist and innovator.
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Esan Regmi
Esan Regmi (born 1988) is a prominent Nepali intersex man and intersex human rights activist. He has founded the Nepali organization Campaign for Change, and he is one of the co founders of International NGO Intersex Asia.
Early life
Regmi was ...
, Nepali intersex human rights activist.
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Veronique Renard, Dutch author and visual artist.
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Ana Roxanne
Ana Roxanne Recto (born April 1, 1987) is an American experimental and ambient musician and singer. She is known for her blend of jazz, choral, electronic, and Hindustani sounds, and thematic exploration of self-concept and gender identity. She ...
, American musician and singer.
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Eliana Rubashkyn
Eliana Rubashkyn (; ), (born 25 June 1988) is a New Zealand pharmacist and chemist, known for being the first intersex person assigned male at birth legally recognised as a woman with a UN mechanism under the international refugee statute. Born ...
, Colombian, New Zealand pharmacist, activist and gender refugee.
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Mark Errin Rust
Mark Errin Rust (born 1965) is a convicted Australian Serial killer, serial sex murderer and rapist: he was convicted of two murders committed in 1999 and 2001 respectively. Rust is currently on an Indefinite imprisonment, indefinite detention ...
, Australian serial sex murderer.
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Sa Bangji
Sa Bangji (사방지,舍方知) was a Korean intersex person during the Joseon Dynasty.
Biography
Sa Bangji had hypospadias and reared as a feminine gender role. Sa learned sewing from their mother. Sa Bangji had sexual relationships with widows a ...
, Korean intersex person.
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Erik Schinegger
Erik Schinegger (born 19 June 1948) is an Austrian intersex skier. He was the women's downhill ski world champion in 1966, at which time he was recognized as female and known as Erika Schinegger.
Biography
Schinegger was born in Agsdorf, Carint ...
, alpine skier.
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Scout Schultz, a student at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia, U.S., who was shot dead by police on September 16, 2017.
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Caster Semenya
Mokgadi Caster Semenya OIB (born 7 January 1991) is a South African middle-distance runner and winner of two Olympic gold medals and three World Championships in the women's 800 metres. She first won gold at the World Championships in 2009 ...
,
800 m
The 800 metres, or meters ( US spelling), is a common track running event. It is the shortest commonly run middle-distance running event. The 800 metres is run over two laps of an outdoor (400-metre) track and has been an Olympic event since the ...
Olympic gold medalist.
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Edinanci Silva
Edinanci Fernandes da Silva (born 23 August 1976) is a judoka from Brazil, who won the gold medal in the half heavyweight division (– 78 kg) at the Pan American Games. A resident of São Paulo born in Sousa, Paraíba, Sousa, Paraíba, ...
, Brazilian judoka and gold medalist in the woman's half-heavyweight division at the Pan-American games.
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Dawn Langley Simmons
Dawn Langley Pepita Simmons (probably 1922 – 18 September 2000) was a prolific English author and biographer. Born as Gordon Langley Hall, Simmons lived her first decades as a male. As a young adult, she became close to British actress Dame M ...
(1937 or 1922 to 2000), English author and biographer.
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Jim Sinclair, autism rights activist.
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Witold Smętek
Witold Smętek (born 17 December 1910 in Kalisz — died 29 January 1983 in Warsaw) was a Polish athlete, javelin thrower, runner, handball player, table tennis player, Polish champion and record holder. Born intersex and assigned female at bir ...
, Polish athlete and record holder.
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Georgina Somerset
Georgina Carol Somerset (''née'' Turtle; 23 March 1923 – 30 November 2013) was a British dentist, author, and former Royal Navy officer. She was the first openly intersex person in the United Kingdom and the first intersex woman to be married ...
(née Turtle) (1923-2013), first openly intersex person in the UK; active in the media from the mid-1960s.
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Anick Soni
Anick Soni (born 1995) is a British Asian intersex human rights activist, creative consultant and researcher in childhood and children's rights, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. In 2020, he co-founded an intersex charity in the UK named ...
, award-winning
British Asian
British Asians (also referred to as Asian Britons) are British citizens of Asian descent. They constitute a significant and growing minority of the people living in the United Kingdom, with 6.9% of the population identifying as Asian/Asian Brit ...
intersex activist and
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), also known as the Royal Society of Arts, is a London-based organisation committed to finding practical solutions to social challenges. The RSA acronym is used m ...
.
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Santhi Soundarajan
Santhi Soundarajan (also spelled ''Shanthi Soundararajan'', ta, சாந்தி சௌந்திரராஜன், born 17 April 1981) is a track and field athlete from Tamil Nadu, India. She is the winner of 12 int ...
, Indian athlete.
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Pedro Spajari
Pedro Henrique Silva Spajari (born February 18, 1997 in Amparo) is a Brazilian swimmer.
International career 2015-2019
At the 2015 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships held in Singapore, he finished 5th in the 100 metre freestyle., and 4th ...
, Brazilian swimmer.
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Levi Suydam, 19th century U.S. intersex person.
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Bogi Takács, Hungarian poet and writer.
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Hida Viloria
Hida Viloria (born May 29, 1968) is a Latine American writer, author, producer, and human rights activist.
Viloria is intersex, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming, using they/them pronouns. They are known for their writing, their intersex and n ...
, American queer, gender-fluid intersex writer, activist, and author of ''Born Both: An Intersex Life'' (
Hachette Books
Hachette Books, formerly Hyperion Books, is a general-interest book imprint of the Perseus Books Group, which is a division of Hachette Book Group and ultimately a part of Lagardère Group. Established in 1990, Hachette publishes general-intere ...
); founding director of
Intersex Campaign for Equality
The Intersex Campaign for Equality (IC4E) is a NGO, non-governmental organization that advocates for the intersex human rights, human rights of intersex people. It was formerly the US affiliate of Organisation Intersex International.
History and s ...
; appears in the films ''
Gendernauts
''Gendernauts: A Journey Through Shifting Identities'' is a 1999 film by Monika Treut featuring Sandy Stone, Texas Tomboy, Susan Stryker, and Hida Viloria. It shows us a group of artists in San Francisco who live between the poles of conventiona ...
'' and ''
Intersexion
''Intersexion'' (2012) is a documentary about intersex people. The film was researched and presented by activist Mani Mitchell, New Zealand's first "out" intersex person. ''.
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Del LaGrace Volcano
Del LaGrace Volcano (born July 26, 1957) is an American artist, performer, and activist from California. A formally trained photographer, Volcano's work includes installation, performance and film and interrogates the performance of gender on seve ...
, U.S./Sweden, visual artist and speaker on queer and intersex issues (e.g. the Critical Sexology Seminars, London).
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Christiane Völling
Christiane Völling (born 17 April 1959) is the first intersex person known to have successfully sued for damages in a case brought for non-consensual surgical intervention described as a non-consensual sex reassignment. She was awarded €100,00 ...
, Germany, thought to be the first person to successfully sue in a case of medical treatment without consent.
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Stanisława Walasiewicz
Stanisława Walasiewicz (3 April 1911 – 4 December 1980), also known as Stefania Walasiewicz, and Stella Walsh, was a Polish-American track and field athlete, who became a women's Olympic champion in the 100 metres. Born in Poland and raised ...
, also known as Stella Walsh, a Polish Olympic athlete and medal winner in the 1930s.
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Sean Saifa Wall
Sean Saifa Wall is a published speaker, researcher, and long-time advocate for intersex rights. He is a queer, transgender, and intersex man of color and former president of Interact Advocates for Intersex Youth. He approaches his work to end in ...
, African American intersex and anti-racist activist.
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Margaret Wambui
Margaret Nyairera Wambui (born 15 September 1995) is a Kenyan middle-distance runner specialising in the 800 metres.
In her first international competition, she won the gold at the 2014 World Junior Championships. She later competed at the 201 ...
, Kenyan middle-distance runner.
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Mark Weston (1905–1978), UK field athlete.
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Gigi Raven Wilbur
Gigi Raven Wilbur is an American bisexual rights activist and writer. She has a bachelor's degree in philosophy and a master's degree in social work.
Career and activism
Wilbur was a state organizer in Texas with a bisexuality radio show, a ...
, U.S. bisexuality rights activist.
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Gina Wilson
Gina or GINA or ''variation'' may refer to:
Gina
Gina may refer to:
* Gina (given name), multiple individuals
* Gina (Canaan), a town in ancient Canaan
* Arihant (Jainism), also called gina, a term for a human who has conquered his or her inner p ...
, activist and founder president of
Intersex Human Rights Australia
Intersex Human Rights Australia (IHRA) is a voluntary organisation for intersex people that promotes the human rights and bodily autonomy of intersex people in Australia, and provides education and information services. Established in 2009 and i ...
.
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Xie Jianshun
Xie Jianshun (; born January 24, 1918) was a Taiwanese intersex man who gained considerable fame in 1953 when his variation was discovered by doctors of the Republic of China Armed Forces. He was considered by many to be the first Chinese "transse ...
,
Taiwanese
Taiwanese may refer to:
* Taiwanese language, another name for Taiwanese Hokkien
* Something from or related to Taiwan ( Formosa)
* Taiwanese aborigines, the indigenous people of Taiwan
* Han Taiwanese, the Han people of Taiwan
* Taiwanese people, ...
soldier.
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Reuben Zellman
Reuben Zellman is an American teacher, author, rabbi, and musician. He became the first openly transgender person accepted to the Reform Jewish seminary Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 2003.
Education
Zellman received his B.A ...
, U.S. intersex and transgender rabbi and musician.
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Kimberly Zieselman
Kimberly Zieselman is an attorney, human rights advocate, author, and intersex woman, with androgen insensitivity syndrome. She currently serves as executive director of interACT (formerly Advocates for Informed Choice), and is a signatory of the ...
, U.S. advocate, attorney, and executive director of
interACT
Advocates for Informed Choice, dba interACT or interACT Advocates for Intersex Youth, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization using innovative strategies to advocate for the legal and human rights of children with intersex traits. The organizati ...
.
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Dana Zzyym
Dana Alix Zzyym (born 1958) is an intersex activist and veteran of the U.S. Navy. After the culmination of a six-year legal battle, they became the first U.S. citizen to receive an official U.S. passport with an “X” sex/gender marker.
Early ...
, U.S. non-binary intersex activist and Associate Director of
Intersex Campaign for Equality
The Intersex Campaign for Equality (IC4E) is a NGO, non-governmental organization that advocates for the intersex human rights, human rights of intersex people. It was formerly the US affiliate of Organisation Intersex International.
History and s ...
. Zzyym is suing the U.S. State Department for a gender-neutral passport in ''Zzyym v. Pompeo''.
See also
References
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Intersex-related lists
Lists of people by medical condition
Lists of people by physical attribute
Lists of LGBT-related people