List of intersex people

Intersex people are born with sex characteristics, such as genitals, gonads and chromosome patterns, "that do not fit typical binary notions of male or female bodies".^[1] 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

• Jim Ambrose, intersex activist, (co)founded Inter/Act. and The Interface Project, appears alongside Tiger Devore in the short film XXXY (2000).^[2]
• Aaron Apps, American poet, author, winner of the 2014 Sawtooth Poetry Prize for the book Dear Herculine and essayist in the 2014 edition of Best American Essays.^[3]
• Eden Atwood, American jazz musician, actor, and an advocate for the civil rights of people born with intersex traits.

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.^[4] Barbin's birthday, November 8, is now observed as Intersex Day of Remembrance.
• Lisset Barcellos, filmmaker and director of the 2005 drama film Both.^[5]
• Max Beck, participant in the demonstration on October 26, 1996, that led to the establishment of Intersex Awareness Day.^[6]
• 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.^[7] Current co-chair 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.^[8]
• Morgan Carpenter, Australian intersex activist and co-chair of Organisation Intersex International Australia.^[9]
• Eleno de Céspedes, a 16th-century intersex person in Spain. (Spanish)
• Cheryl Chase, American intersex activist and founder of the Intersex Society of North America.^[10]
• Hiker Chiu, founder of Oii-Chinese.
• Alessandro Comeni, Italian intersex activist, co-founder of intersexioni and honorary president of Associazione Radicale Certi Diritti.^[11]
• 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

• Fernanda Fernández (1755-unknown), Spanish intersex person. (Spanish)
• 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 and co-chair of OII Europe.
• Gottlieb Göttlich (1798-unknown), German medical subject.
• Sarah Graham, activist, addiction counsellor and UK "national LGBT treasure".^[12]
• Holly Greenberry, British intersex activist, co-Founder and director of Intersex UK.^[13]
• 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.
• Curtis Hinkle, American activist and founder of Organisation Intersex International.^[14]
• Morgan Holmes, Canadian activist, associate professor of sociology and author of several books on intersex including Critical Intersex.^[15]

J

• Kimber James, former pornographic actor and escort.
• Natasha Jiménez, Costa Rican and Latin American intersex and trans activist.

K

• Julius Kaggwa, award-winning Ugandan activist.
• John Kenley, pioneering theatrical producer
• Ewa Kłobukowska, Polish sprinter.
• Shon Klose, Australian musician and activist.^[16]
• Ins A Kromminga, visual artist^[17][18] and intersex activist^[19]

L

• Le Van Duyet, Nguyen Dynasty general and high-ranking mandarin in Vietnam.^[20]
• Esther Morris Leidolf, Founder of MRKH Organization,^[21] and author of The Missing Vagina Monologue.^[22]
• Small Luk, intersex activist living in Hong Kong, founder of Beyond the Boundary – Knowing and Concerns Intersex^[23]

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.^[24]
• Nthabiseng Mokoena, South African intersex activist.
• Iain Morland, British author and music technologist.

N

• Tebogo Nkoana, African intersex activist, director of Transgender and Intersex Africa

P

• Pidgeon Pagonis, American intersex artist and activist, nominated as a 2015 Whitehouse LGBT Champion of Change.^[25]
• Dee Palmer, formerly David Palmer, English composer and keyboardist, best known for membership in Jethro Tull.
• Pinki Pramanik, Indian track athlete.

Q

• Emily Quinn, artist, animator and intersex activist.^[26][27]

R

• Michaela Raab, Germany, successfully took University of Erlangen-Nuremberg to court over non-consensual medical treatment in 2015.^[28][29]
• Dora Ratjen (1918-2008), German athlete.
• Veronique Renard, Dutch author and visual artist.
• Eliana Rubashkyn, Colombian pharmacist, activist and gender refugee.
• Apostle Darlan Rukih Moses, African gospel musician^[30]
• Daléa Rundblad, American musician and activist^[31][32]

S

• Erik Schinegger, alpine skier.
• Edinanci Silva, judoka and Gold medalist in the woman's half-heavyweight division at the Pan-American games.^[33]
• Dawn Langley Simmons (1937 or 1922 to 2000), English author and biographer.
• Jim Sinclair, autism rights activist.^[34]
• Georgina Somerset (née Turtle) (1923-2013), first openly intersex person in the UK; active in the media from the mid-1960s.^[35]
• Santhi Soundarajan, Indian athlete.^[36]
• Levi Suydam, 19th century American intersex person.

V

• Dawn Vago, British intersex activist and musician.^[13]
• Hida Viloria, American intersex activist, author and chairperson of OII-USA and Organisation Intersex International. Viloria also appears in the film Gendernauts.
• Del LaGrace Volcano, visual artist and speaker on queer and intersex issues (e.g. the Critical Sexology Seminars, London).^[37]
• Christiane Völling, Germany, thought to be the first person to successfully sue in a case of medical treatment without consent.^[28][38][39]

W

• Stanisława Walasiewicz, also known as Stella Walsh, a Polish Olympic athlete and medal winner in the 1930s.
• Sean Saifa Wall, of African origin living in the USA, intersex and anti-racist activist.^[40]
• Gigi Raven Wilbur, American bisexuality rights activist.^[41]
• Gina Wilson, activist and founder president of Organisation Intersex International Australia.

X

• Ela Xora, British mask maker, visual and performance artist.^[42]

Z

• Dana Zzyym, American non-binary intersex activist and Associate Director of OII-USA. Zzyym is suing the US State Department for a passport.^[43][44]

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.^[45][46][47] Tests she was subjected to included what were described as humiliating genital photography.^[48]

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.^[49]
• 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.^[50]
• 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.^[51]
• 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