List of intersexed and hermaphroditic characters

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Intersexed individuals of a species, especially humans.

  • Emma Bull . Bonedance
  • William Carlson. "Dinner at Helen's" in Strange Bedfellows, edited by Thomas N. 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)
  • Donna McMahon. Dance of Knives (2002) (minor character is hermaphroditic; apparently mutagens have caused hermaphroditism to be not uncommon)
  • Isaac Asimov, . Foundation and Earth (1986) [a hermaphroditic variety of humans; one joins the protagonists]
  • Katharine Burdekin, . [[Proud Man] (1934; 1993) (A human from the future visits 1930s England; humans in the future have evolved "beyond" humanity, and beyond humanity's bi-sexed nature; each individual can reproduce on their own, and is whole, containing both male and female attributes. This human contemplates with amazement the various social oddities of modern English society.)
  • L. Timmel Duchamp, . "Motherhood, Etc." (1993)
  • Camarin Grae. Stranded (1991, Naiad) (3 women from a hermaphroditic species are sent as "disembodied minds" to Earth to stop a villain. They end up identifying as lesbians and fighting a fundamentalist movement led by the villain.)
  • Graham Joyce, and Peter F. Hamilton. "Eat Reecebread" (1994)
  • Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness is a type of hermaphroditism: male and female gender in potential
  • Stephen Leigh. Dark Water's Embrace (1998) and Speaking Stones (1999)
  • Melissa Scott. Shadow Man (1995) (space travel creates five common genders)


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