List of intersex people

This list consists of well-known intersex people, followed by a separate list of notable researchers on intersex issues. The individual listings note the subject's main occupation or source of notability.

Notable intersex people

A

• Eden Atwood, American jazz musician, actor, and an advocate for the civil rights of people born with intersex traits.^[1]

B

• Karl M. Baer (1885-1956), German-Israeli author, social worker, suffragette and Zionist.
• Herculine Barbin—the 19th century memoirs of this French intersex person were published by Michel Foucault in 1980.^[2] Barbin's birthday, November 8, is now observed as Intersex Day of Remembrance.
• Lisset Barcellos, filmmaker and director of the 2005 drama film Both.
• Maddie Blaustein, American voice actor known for her roles as Meowth in Pokémon and E-123 Omega in the Sonic the Hedgehog series, a founder of Second Life
• Tony Briffa, Australian intersex and human rights activist; world's first out intersex Mayor and first publicly elected out intersex person.^[3] Current Vice-President of Organisation Intersex International Australia, and Vice-President and former President of the AIS Support Group Australia.

C

• Mauro Cabral, Argentinian intersex activist, writer, Co-director of GATE (Global Action for Trans Equality)
• Lady Colin Campbell, British aristocrat and author of Guide to Being a Modern Lady.^[4]
• Morgan Carpenter, Australian intersex activist and president of Organisation Intersex International Australia.^[5]
• Cheryl Chase, American intersex activist and founder of the Intersex Society of North America.^[6]
• Katherine Connella, American actress and writer.
• Caroline Cossey, English model.

D

• Lisa Lee Dark, Welsh opera singer and voice actress.
• Georgiann Davis, American sociology scholar and researcher on intersex issues.
• Vaginal Davis, American genderqueer performing artist, painter, composer and writer.
• Tiger Devore, American clinical psychologist and educator on intersex issues.
• Foekje Dillema (1926-2007), Dutch track and field athlete.

E

• Lili Elbe (1882-1931), one of the earliest transgender women to receive sex reassignment surgery, was intersex.

F

• Sir Ewan Forbes (1912-1991), formerly Elizabeth Forbes-Sempill and 11th Baronet of Craigievar.

G

• Dan Christian Ghattas, German activist, historian and author of Human Rights between the Sexes, a first international comparative study of the human rights of intersex people.
• Gottlieb Göttlich (1798-unknown), German medical subject.
• Sarah Graham, activist, addiction counsellor and UK "national LGBT treasure".^[7]
• Sarah Gronert, 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.

H

• Thomas(ine) Hall, a person of indeterminate gender in 17th-century colonial Virginia
• Phoebe Hart, Australian filmmaker and director of Orchids, My Intersex Adventure, a 2010 auto-biographical documentary.
• Morgan Holmes, Canadian activist, associate professor of sociology and author of several books on intersex including Critical Intersex.^[8]
• Curtis Hinkle, founder of Organisation Intersex International

J

• Kimber James, former pornographic actor and escort.

K

• Ewa Kłobukowska, Polish sprinter.
• Ins A Kromminga, visual artist^[9][10] and intersex activist^[11]

L

• Le Van Duyet, Nguyen Dynasty general and high-ranking mandarin in Vietnam.^[12]

M

• Alex MacFarlane, first known holder of an Australian passport with an 'X' sex descriptor.
• Maria José Martínez-Patiño is a Spanish hurdler who was dismissed from competition in 1986 for failing a sex test.
• Mani Mitchell, New Zealand intersex activist, researcher/presenter of the movie Intersexion.^[13]
• Iain Morland, British author and music technologist.

P

• Dee Palmer, formerly David Palmer, English composer and keyboardist, best known for membership in Jethro Tull.
• Pinki Pramanik, Indian track athlete.

R

• Dora Ratjen (1918-2008), German athlete.
• Veronique Renard, Dutch author and visual artist.

S

• Erik Schinegger, alpine skier.
• Edinanci Silva, judoka and Gold medalist in the woman's half-heavyweight division at the Pan-American games.^[14]
• Dawn Langley Simmons (1937 or 1922 to 2000), English author and biographer.
• Jim Sinclair, autism rights activist.^[15]
• Georgina Somerset (née Turtle) (1923-2013), first openly intersex person in the UK; active in the media from the mid-1960s.^[16]
• Santhi Soundarajan, Indian athlete who competes in the middle distance track events. She was stripped of a silver medal won at the 2006 Asian Games after failing a sex verification test, disputing her eligibility to participate in the women's competition.

V

• Hida Viloria, American intersex activist, author and chairperson of OII-USA and Organisation Intersex International
• Del LaGrace Volcano, visual artist and speaker on queer and intersex issues (e.g. the Critical Sexology Seminars, London).^[17]

W

• Stanisława Walasiewicz, also known as Stella Walsh, a Polish Olympic athlete and medal winner in the 1930s.
• Gigi Raven Wilbur, American bisexuality rights activist.^[18]
• Gina Wilson, activist and founder president of Organisation Intersex International Australia.

Discussion in media and on internet

• There has been intense speculation about Caster Semenya, the South African middle-distance runner, being intersex. The way she has been dealt with by the sporting community and the media has itself been the subject of debate in the media.^[19][20][21] Tests she was subjected to included what were described as humiliating genital photography.^[22]

Noted researchers on intersex

• Georgiann Davis, associate professor of sociology and researcher on intersex issues.
• Milton Diamond, professor of neurology, Univ. of Hawai'i at Manoa, and director of The Pacific Center for Sex and Society located at the University of Hawaii.^[23]
• Alice Dreger, former chair of ISNA.
• Anne Fausto-Sterling, author of numerous books on intersex, including Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality, 2000.
• Morgan Holmes, author of books including Intersex: A Perilous Difference (2007), and editor of Critical Intersex, 2009.^[8]
• Katrina Karkazis, author of Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience, a 2008 book on intersex that is regarded as meticulous, authoritative and thoughtful.^[24]
• John Money (1921–2006) was a psychologist, sexologist and author, controversial due to the David Reimer case.
• Iain Morland, British author on gender, sexuality, medical ethics and science.

See also

• Intersex

References