List of intersexed and hermaphroditic characters
Intersexed individuals of a species, especially humans.
By work
- Isaac Asimov, Foundation and Earth (1986) [a hermaphroditic variety of humans; one joins the protagonists]
- Lois McMaster Bujold. Bel Thorne - Betan hermaphrodite, featured particularly in The Warrior's Apprentice and Diplomatic Immunity.
- Emma Bull. Sparrow in Bone Dance
- 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.)
- William Carlson. "Dinner at Helen's" in Strange Bedfellows, edited by Thomas N. Scortia (1972)
- Raphael Carter. "Congenital Agenesis of Gender Ideation" in Starlight 2, edited by Patrick Nielsen Hayden
- 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)
- L. Timmel Duchamp. "Motherhood, Etc." (1993)
- Kelley Eskridge. Jo in "[[And Salome Danced]."
- Camarin Grae. Stranded (1991, Naiad) (Three 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)
- R. M. Koster. Mandragon (1979) (hermaphroditic child raised as monster; then discovers or is discovered by powers)
- Stephen Leigh. Dark Water's Embrace (1998) and Speaking Stones (1999)
- Elizabeth A. Lynn "The Man Who Was Pregnant" in The Woman Who Loved the Moon and Other Stories
- Donna McMahon. Dance of Knives (2002) (minor character is hermaphroditic; apparently mutagens have caused hermaphroditism to be not uncommon)
- Melissa Scott. Shadow Man (1995) (space travel creates five common genders)
By name or species
- Drac species in Enemy Mine, a 1985 SF film dir. by Wolfgang Petersen and based on story by Barry B. Longyear. Drac pilot Jeriba "Jerry" Shigan, played by male actor Louis Gossett, Jr., is pregnant.