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'''Pidgeon Pagonis''' ({{LifeData|1986}}) is an American [[intersex]] activist, writer, artist, and consultant.
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Pagonis was born in Chicago, {{USSC|IL}}, and has Mexican and Greek ancestry. Pagonis seems to be of indeterminate gender.
As a child, Pagonis, a queer and non-binary person who uses ''they/them'' pronouns,<ref name="cnn-apr2014">{{REFnews
|last=Kinsman
|first=Kat
|title=Intersex dating: Finding love across the intersection
|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2014/04/15/living/intersex-dating-relate/index.html
|date=2014-04-15
|accessdate=2023-08-18
|website=CNN
}}</ref><ref name="ef-jun29-2016">{{REFweb
|last=Pagonis
|first=Pidgeon
|init=P
|author-link=Pidgeon Pagonis
|title=7 Ways Adding 'I' to the LGBTQA+ Acronym Can Miss the Point
|url=https://everydayfeminism.com/2016/06/intersex-lgbtq-misses-the-point/
|website=Everyday Feminism
|date=2016-06-29
|accessdate=2023-08-18
}}</ref> was diagnosed with androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS).<ref name="paper-aug2016">{{REFweb
|last=Weaver
|first=Hilary
|title=Meet Chicago's White-House-Honored Intersex Activist, Pidgeon Pagonis
|url=http://web.archive.org/web/20160917111127/http://www.papermag.com/meet-chicagos-white-house-honored-intersex-activist-pidgeon-pagonis-1967101092.html
|archived=yes
|website=Paper (magazine)
|date=2016-08-10
|accessdate=2023-08-18
}}</ref> They were not told of this intersex variation, were assigned female at birth, told that they had ovarian cancer (when they in fact had internal testes and no ovaries), and subjected to a series of surgeries to alter their genitalia.<ref name="paper-aug2016"/><ref name="cnn-apr2014"/>
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* {{URLwebsite|https://pid.ge/|2023-08-18}}
* {{URLwikipedia|Pidgeon_Pagonis|Pidgeon Pagonis|2023-08-18}}
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