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Include any character that is not traditionally and simply "male" or "female". May include real biology or fictional biology; characters from human and non-human species; etc.  
Include any character that is not traditionally and simply "male" or "female". May include real biology or fictional biology; characters from human and non-human species; etc. For intersexed or hermaphroditic characters, see [[List of intersexed and hermaphroditic characters]].


==Gender-changers==
==Gender-changers==
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* [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]. [[Therem Harth rem ir Estraven]] from ''[[The Left Hand of Darkness]]''; a native of the planet [[Gethen]], all of whom reproduce by going into ''[[kemmer]]'' as (usually) either male or female. Most Gethenians are male in some periods of kemmer and female in other periods--many both bear and father children.  
* [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]. [[Therem Harth rem ir Estraven]] from ''[[The Left Hand of Darkness]]''; a native of the planet [[Gethen]], all of whom reproduce by going into ''[[kemmer]]'' as (usually) either male or female. Most Gethenians are male in some periods of kemmer and female in other periods--many both bear and father children.  
* [[Thomas T. Thomas]]. [[Crygender]]
* [[Thomas T. Thomas]]. [[Crygender]]
* [[John Varley]]. Many if not most characters in the Eight Worlds series change gender frequently; virtually all have access to do so if they choose. The beginnings of this are chronicled in ''[Options]'' and the theme persists through many more stories.
* [[John Varley]]. Many if not most characters in the Eight Worlds series change gender frequently; virtually all have access to do so if they choose. The beginnings of this are chronicled in [[Options]] and the theme persists through many more stories.
 
==Intersexed individuals of a species, especially humans.==
* [[Lois McMaster Bujold]]. [[Bel Thorne]] - Betan hermaphrodite
* [[Emma Bull]]. Sparrow in ''[[Bone Dance]]''
* [[William Carlson]]. "Dinner at Helen's" in [[Strange Bedfellows]], edited by Thomas Scortia (1972)
* [[Ellen Cooney]]. ''[[The Silver Rose]]'' (1979) (reminiscent of ancient greek theory: a deity's hermaphroditic child is split into two oppositely gendered beings until they re-unite)
* [[Samuel R. Delany]]. ''[[The Einstein Intersection]]'' (1967) (hermaphroditic side characters)
* [R. M. Koster]]  ''[[Mandragon]]'' (1979) (hermaphroditic child raised as monster; then discovers or is discovered by powers)
* [[Elizabeth A. Lynn]] [[The Man Who Was Pregnant]]
* [[McMahon, Donna]]. ''[[Dance of Knives]]'' (2002) (minor character is hermaphroditic; apparently mutagens have caused hermaphroditism to be not uncommon)
 


'''See Also:'''
'''See Also:'''
[[Transvestites, drag queens, passing women]]
* [[List of intersexed and hermaphroditic characters]]
 
* [[List of non-binary sexed species]]
* [[Transvestites, drag queens, passing women]]


[[Category:Characters by gender]]
[[Category:Queer]]
[[Category:Queer]]
[[Category:Character names needed]]
[[Category:Character names needed]]
[[Category:Character lists]]
[[Category:Lists of other-gendered characters]]

Latest revision as of 19:26, 15 April 2008

Include any character that is not traditionally and simply "male" or "female". May include real biology or fictional biology; characters from human and non-human species; etc. For intersexed or hermaphroditic characters, see List of intersexed and hermaphroditic characters.

Gender-changers

See Also: