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 b ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 Secretariat of the United Nati ...

, "do not fit the typical definitions for

male Male (Mars symbol, 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 sexual reproduction, repro ...

female Female (symbol: ♀) is the sex of an organism that produces the large non-motile ova (egg cells), the type of gamete (sex cell) that fuses with the male gamete during sexual reproduction. A female has larger gametes than a male. Females a ...

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 Carlett Brown Angianlee (born c. 1927) was a United States Navy veteran during the 1950s who, if she made it to Europe, was the first African American to undergo gender affirmation surgery. Biography From Pittsburgh, Angianlee was born c. ...

, Naval officer, considered likely to be the first African American to undergo SRS. * Eden Atwood, U.S. jazz musician, actor, and an advocate for the civil rights of people born with intersex traits. * 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 (1885–1956), German-Israeli author, social worker, suffragette and Zionist. * Nubia Barahona, a ten-year-old American girl murdered in 2011. *

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 af ...

, 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 ho ...

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 who ...

. * Janik Bastien-Charlebois, Quebecois sociologist, researcher and activist. * Max Beck, 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 ...

. *

Aleksander Berezkin Aleksander Berezkin () is a Russian intersex man, asylum seeker and intersex human rights activist. He is a founder of the first Russian intersex human rights organization ''ARSI'' (“Association of the Russian-Speaking Intersex”). He has als ...

(), 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 s ...

. *

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 version) is a Pokémon species in Nintendo and Game Freak's ''Pokémon'' franchise. Created by Ken Sugimori, Meowth first appeared in the video games ''Pokémon Red'' and ''Blue'' and subsequ ...

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'' for the Sega Genesis, which pitted a blue anthropomorphic hedgehog named Sonic against a rotund male human villain named Doctor Eggman (or Doctor ...

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 platformer ...

'' 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 ...

''. * 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 ...

, 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 ...

. * Alec Butler, 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 wal ...

* Jeff Cagandahan, 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 pe ...

activist at Intersex Asia who successful appealed for a change of name and gender on his birth certificate. *

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 ...

, UK author and socialite. *

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 cofound ...

, Australian intersex activist who created the modern intersex flag which features a purple circle and yellow background, he is the co-executive director of

. *

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. *

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 fo ...

regulations preventing her from running. * 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 Ambi ...

.Weil, Elizabeth (September, 2006)
What if It's (Sort of) a Boy and (Sort of) a Girl?
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The New York Times Magazine ''The New York Times Magazine'' is an American Sunday magazine supplement included with the Sunday edition of ''The New York Times''. It features articles longer than those typically in the newspaper and has attracted many notable contributors. ...

''. *

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 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 ...

. *

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. *

Cary Gabriel Costello Cary Gabriel Costello is an intersex trans male professor and advocate for transgender and intersex rights. His areas of study include identity, sexuality, privilege, and marginalization. Career and personal life Assigned female at birth, ...

, U.S. associate professor of sociology and advocate for transgender and intersex rights. *

Roberta Cowell Roberta Elizabeth Marshall Cowell (8 April 1918 – 11 October 2011) was a British racing driver and Second World War fighter pilot. She was the first known British trans woman to undergo gender-affirming surgery in 1948. Early life Roberta C ...

, British racing driver and pilot.

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* Lisa Lee Dark, Welsh opera singer and voice actress. *

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 ...

, U.S. sociology scholar and researcher on intersex issues. *

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. *

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. *

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). *

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. * Arisleyda Dilone, U.S. Latina film director and actor. *

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 Buffa ...

, Mayor of Flemington, New Jersey; intersex activist and first intersex elected official in the United States. *

Karl Dürrge Karl Dürrge (also known as Maria Dorothea Derrier: 1780–1835) was a Prussian intersex man, who had been designated on birth documents as female. After discovering the presence of ambiguous external genitalia, Dürrge assumed a male identity an ...

(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 Ei ...

(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 B ...

, American artist, musician, and music producer. *

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 refi ...

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 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 Hispan ...

. *

Fernanda Fernández Fernanda Fernández ( Zújar, Granada, 1755 – fl. 1792) was a Spanish nun, found to have an intersex trait following an investigation that Fernández initiated, and subsequently reclassified as male. Early life Fernanda Fernández took religiou ...

(1755–unknown), Spanish intersex person. * Sir Ewan Forbes (1912–1991), UK noble, formerly Elizabeth Forbes-Sempill and 11th Baronet of Craigievar. *

Crystal Frasier Crystal Frasier is an American artist and game designer known for her work on the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. She was also the author of the webcomic, '' Venus Envy'', with a trans woman as a protagonist, which ran from 2001 to 2014. She is ...

, 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 Gender transitioning, transition; this process commonly includes Feminizing horm ...

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* River Gallo, Salvadoran-American filmmaker, actor, model, and intersex rights activist. *

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 ...

, 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. * Gottlieb Göttlich (1798–unknown), German medical research subject. * Seven Graham (1969), activist, comedian, filmmaker and playwright, and drug addiction counsellor. *

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. * 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, a person of indeterminate gender in 17th-century colonial Virginia. *

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 inters ...

, Australian multi-disciplinary artist and president of the

. *

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. *

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 me ...

, Dutch activist, co-chair of OII Europe and director of Nederlands Netwerk intersekse/DSD. *

Francis Heaulme Francis Heaulme (born February 25, 1959 at Metz) is a French serial killer dubbed the "Criminal Backpacker" (''"Routard du crime"''). Biography Heaulme's father brutalized him until the age of 17, leading him to become an alcoholic and attemp ...

, a French serial killer with

. *

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 de ...

, 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." *

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. * Alex Jürgen, 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. *

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. *

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, Japanese-American internist at

, co-founder of

, and sex worker and trans feminist activist. *

Anton Kryzhanovsky Anton Krzyzanowski or Anton Kryzhanovsky (, born 3 March 1995) is a Russian intersex activist and sound designer. He is the founder of the intersex human rights initiative group Interseks.ru () and is known for speaking openly about living with ...

(), 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 mol ...

. *

Irene Kuzemko Irene Kuzemko (; ), also transcribed from Ukrainian and Russian as Irina Kuzemko, is a prominent Russian-Ukrainian intersex woman and intersex human rights activist. She co-founded Intersex Russia in 2017, is a youth member of interACT, and an ...

(), 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 ca ...

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 ...

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. *

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 le ...

, a U.S. serial killer with

. *

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 Delta i ...

, 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 2016 ...

, 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 b ...

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 typic ...

person appointed in the public office with a position in par with Under Secretary to Government of India. Ex-Hindu Monk. *

Aprilio Manganang Aprilio Perkasa Manganang (born Aprilia Santini Manganang; April 27, 1992 in Tahuna, North Sulawesi) is an Indonesian volleyball player who competed as a woman but was later determined to be an intersex male post-retirement. He was a member of ...

, an Indonesian volleyball player, reassigned male after retirement. *

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 belie ...

, first known holder of an Australian passport with an 'X' sex descriptor. *

Gabriel J. Martín Gabriel José Martín Martín (San Fernando, July 12, 1971) is a Spanish gay and intersex psychologist, writer and activist. Personal life When he was born, Gabriel J. Martín was assigned a female sex due to the appearance of his genitals. He ...

, Spanish gay and intersex psychologist and author. *

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 ...

, a Spanish hurdler who was dismissed from competition in 1986 for failing a sex test. *

Santiago Mbanda Lima Santiago Mbanda Lima, also known as Santiago D’Almeida Ferreira, born in Viseu, Portugal, on May 18, 1989, is an Angolan-Portuguese artivist. He is co-founder and co-director of the non-governmental organization Ação Pela Identidade (Action ...

, the first publicly-visible intersex activist in Portugal. * Sheena Metal, U.S. talk-show host. *

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 I ...

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 List of islands of New Zealand, smaller islands. It is the ...

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.

''. *

Nthabiseng Mokoena Nthabiseng Mokoena is a prominent South African 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 ...

, South African intersex activist. * Iain Morland, British author and music technologist. * Esther Morris Leidolf, U.S. activist and founder of MRKH Organization, and author of ''The Missing Vagina Monologue''.

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* Annet Negesa, Ugandan middle-distance runner. *

Maria Nikiforova ) , allegiance = Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets Makhnovshchina , branch = , serviceyears = 1914-1919 , rank = Atamansha , unit = , commands = , battles = World ...

, Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary. *

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, American author, editor, and poet. *

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. *

Sogto Ochirov Sogto Ochirov (, born September 1993) is a Russian intersex activist, archer and shepherd. He is a Buryat from Zabaykalsky Krai. He is known for speaking openly about living with partial androgen insensitivity. He became the subject of a YouT ...

, Russian

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 ...

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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. *

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 from 1976 to 1980 (although she had worked with the band as an a ...

, formerly David Palmer, English composer and keyboardist, best known for membership in Jethro Tull. *

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 Ga ...

, Indian track athlete. *

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, to ...

, Polish-American military commander thought to have an intersex trait.

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Kristian Ranđelović Kristian Ranđelović (born 1973) is an activist for LGBTI+ rights in the Balkan region, focusing on the rights of transgender and intersex people. Ranđelović has developed the first transgender support group in the Balkans. He is one of the co-f ...

, Serbian and Balkan intersex and transgender activist. *

Heinrich Ratjen Heinrich Ratjen (20 November 1918 – 22 April 2008), born Dora Ratjen, was a German athlete who competed for Germany in the women's high jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics at Berlin, finishing fourth, but was later determined to be male and/or int ...

(also known as Dora Ratjen) (1918–2008), German athlete. * Jemma Redmond (1978–2016), Irish biotechnologist and innovator. *

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 wa ...

, Nepali intersex human rights activist. *

Veronique Renard Véronique Françoise Caroline Renard (Jutphaas, 26 May 1965) is a Dutch author and visual artist. She is also known as Pantau, a name that was adopted after meeting the Dalai Lama at an audience at his home in McLeodganj, Dharamsala, India in 20 ...

, Dutch author and visual artist. *

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. * Eliana Rubashkyn, Colombian, New Zealand pharmacist, activist and gender refugee. * Mark Errin Rust, Australian serial sex murderer.

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* Sa Bangji, Korean intersex person. *

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, Carin ...

, alpine skier. *

Scout Schultz On September 16, 2017, Scout Schultz, a 21-year-old student of the Georgia Institute of Technology, was shot once and killed by Tyler Beck, an officer of the Georgia Tech Police Department, a shooting that was later found justified in a formal i ...

, a student at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia, U.S., who was shot dead by police on September 16, 2017. *

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 a ...

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 th ...

Olympic gold medalist. * Edinanci Silva, Brazilian judoka and gold medalist in the woman's half-heavyweight division at the Pan-American games. *

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 Ma ...

(1937 or 1922 to 2000), English author and biographer. * Jim Sinclair, autism rights activist. * Witold Smętek, Polish athlete and record holder. *

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. * Anick Soni, 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 Bri ...

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 ...

. * Santhi Soundarajan, Indian athlete. * Pedro Spajari, Brazilian swimmer. *

Levi Suydam Levi Suydam was a property-holding intersex person who lived in the 19th century. In 1843, at a local election in Salisbury, Connecticut, Suydam was presented to the town selectmen as a male property holder, the requirements for being validated as ...

, 19th century U.S. intersex person.

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Bogi Takács Bogi Takács (born 25 December 1983) is a Hungarian poet, writer, psycholinguist, editor, and translator. Takács is an intersex, agender trans Jewish writer who has written Torah-inspired Jewish-themed work, and uses ''e''/''em''/''eir''/' ...

, 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 ...

, 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-int ...

); founding director of

Intersex Campaign for Equality The Intersex Campaign for Equality (IC4E) is a non-governmental organization that advocates for the human rights of intersex people. It was formerly the US affiliate of Organisation Intersex International. History and staff The Intersex Campaign ...

; 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 convention ...

'' 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.

''. * Del LaGrace Volcano, U.S./Sweden, visual artist and speaker on queer and intersex issues (e.g. the Critical Sexology Seminars, London). *

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, also known as Stella Walsh, a Polish Olympic athlete and medal winner in the 1930s. * Sean Saifa Wall, African American intersex and anti-racist activist. *

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. * Mark Weston (1905–1978), UK field athlete. * Gigi Raven Wilbur, U.S. bisexuality rights activist. *

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

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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 "transs ...

, Taiwanese 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. *

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 organizat ...

. *

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

. Zzyym is suing the U.S. State Department for a gender-neutral passport in ''Zzyym v. Pompeo''.

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