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[[File:Pidgeon_Pagonis.jpg|thumb|{{FULLPAGENAME}}]]'''Pidgeon Pagonis''' (born {{LifeData|1986}}) is an American [[intersex]] activist, writer, artist, and consultant.
{{WikipediaQuote|URL=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgeon_Pagonis|title=Pidgeon_Pagonis}}Pagonis was born in Chicago, Illinois{{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> He/She were not told of this [[intersex]] variation, were assigned female at birth, told that he/she had ovarian cancer (when they in fact had internal testes and no ovaries), and subjected to a series of surgeries to alter his/her genitalia.<ref name="paper-aug2016"/><ref name="cnn-apr2014"/>
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Human rights]]
* [[Intactivism]]
* [[United States of America]]
{{LINKS}}
* {{URLwebsite|https://pid.ge/|2023-08-18}}
* {{URLwikipedia|Pidgeon_Pagonis|Pidgeon Pagonis|2023-08-18}}
{{REF}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pagonis, Pidgeon}}
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