List of other-gendered characters
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.
Gender-changers
- Lois McMaster Bujold. Lady Dona/Lord Dono from A Civil Campaign
- 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
- 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)