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* Children are gender-neutral and choose at puberty. ([[Vonda McIntyre]]. "Wings" in <I>The Alien Condition</I>, edited by Stephen Goldin (New York: Ballantine, 1973))
* Children are gender-neutral and choose at puberty. ([[Vonda McIntyre]]. "Wings" in <I>The Alien Condition</I>, edited by Stephen Goldin (New York: Ballantine, 1973))
* A race of humans appears to be neuter. ([[Theodore Sturgeon]]'s [[Venus Plus X]] (1960))
* A race of humans appears to be neuter. ([[Theodore Sturgeon]]'s [[Venus Plus X]] (1960))
* Some people on [[Darkover]] are  born neuter, others choose to become such. (Often after traumatic sexual experiences)


[[Image:STTNG-Outcast-Soren-headshot.jpg|right|thumbnail|180px|Soren (played by Melinda Culea), a member of the androgynous species, the J'naii, on [[ST:TNG]] episode "[[The Outcast (ST:TNG episode)|The Outcast]]" (1992)]]
[[Image:STTNG-Outcast-Soren-headshot.jpg|right|thumbnail|180px|Soren (played by Melinda Culea), a member of the androgynous species, the J'naii, on [[ST:TNG]] episode "[[The Outcast (ST:TNG episode)|The Outcast]]" (1992)]]
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Revision as of 08:08, 27 April 2007

Stories where either the whole species is neuter; there is a neuter sex; or members of the species pass thru a neuter phase.

Soren (played by Melinda Culea), a member of the androgynous species, the J'naii, on ST:TNG episode "The Outcast" (1992)
  • The J'naii, a humanoid species that has "evolved" beyond gender. Unclear whether androgyny is merely a social convention or whether it is also a biological change. (ST:TNG episode The Outcast (1992))


Other Possibilities

  • Androgyne character in R. M. Meluch's Wind Child (1982) (single individual, or member of androgyne species?)
  • Bilker, Harvey L. "Genetic Faux Pas" in Thomas N. Scortia's Strange Bedfellows (1972)
  • Delany, Samuel. "Aye, and Gomorrah ... " (first published in Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison, 1967).