Holly Boswell

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| date_birth=November 19, 1950<ref name="moun_Lett">{{Cite web |title=Letter: Celebrating local trailblazer Holly Boswell |author=Barge, Jennifer |work=Mountain Xpress |date=August 15, 2017 |access-date=October 19, 2020 |url= https://mountainx.com/opinion/letter-celebrating-local-trailblazer-holly-boswell/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220518003357/https://mountainx.com/opinion/letter-celebrating-local-trailblazer-holly-boswell/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>

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| date_death=August 2017

| place_death=Asheville, North Carolina, USA<ref name="lgbt_Holl">{{Cite web |title=Holly Boswell {{!}} Profile |author= |work=LGBTQ Religious Archives Network |date= |access-date=19 October 2020 |url= https://lgbtqreligiousarchives.org/profiles/holly-boswell|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230622014053/https://lgbtqreligiousarchives.org/profiles/holly-boswell|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>

| nationality=American

| pronouns=[[English_neutral_pronouns#S.2Fhe|s/he and hir]]<ref name="lgbt_Holl" />

| gender=[[genderqueer]]<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190307040016/http://www.oberlinlgbt.org/personal-histories/boswell/| url=http://www.oberlinlgbt.org/personal-histories/boswell/|title=Personal Histories – Holly Boswell|work=Oberlin College LGBT Community History Project|date=August 12, 2004|archive-date=March 7, 2019}}</ref>

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'''Holly Boswell''' was an American transgender activist, known for helping create the [[Gender_symbols#Transgender_symbols|transgender symbol]] in 1993.<ref name="Marusic">{{Cite web |title=Trans Pioneer Holly Boswell, Who Created The Transgender Symbol, Passes Away At 66 |last=Marusic |first=Kristina |work=NewNowNext |date=August 16, 2017 |access-date=October 19, 2020 |url= http://www.newnownext.com/holly-boswell-creator-of-transgender-symbol-obituary/08/2017/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230622081515/http://www.newnownext.com/holly-boswell-creator-of-transgender-symbol-obituary/08/2017/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>