Pidgeon Pagonis

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Pidgeon Pagonis

Pidgeon Pagonis (born 1986) is an American intersex activist, writer, artist, and consultant.

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Pagonis was born in Chicago, 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,[1][2] was diagnosed with androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS).[3] 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.[3][1]

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  1. a b REFnews Kinsman, Kat (15 April 2014)."Intersex dating: Finding love across the intersection", CNN. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
  2. REFweb Pagonis P (29 June 2016). 7 Ways Adding 'I' to the LGBTQA+ Acronym Can Miss the Point, Everyday Feminism. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
  3. a b REFweb Weaver, Hilary (10 August 2016). Meet Chicago's White-House-Honored Intersex Activist, Pidgeon Pagonis (archive URL), Paper (magazine). Retrieved 18 August 2023.