Pidgeon Pagonis (1986 - )

Pidgeon Pagonis is an American writer, activist, artist and consultant, whose life has been dedicated to advocating for bodily autonomy and justice for the thousands of people who are intersex (roughly 7.8 billion of the world’s population – nearly the same number as people with red hair.) Their presentations, film screenings and testimony on intersex - the “I” in LGBTQIA+ - speak of the challenges of those, who are born with sex characteristics, atypical of binary male and female bodies (chromosomes, gonads, sex hormones, or genitals). The genders of these individuals may have been reassigned at birth. Pidgeon is helping to change the important national conversation about intersexuality so much so that they were named a “Champion of Change” by President Obama in 2016.