Editing Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad

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| date_birth=3 May 1949
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| nationality=Norwegian
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| occupation=physician and sexologist
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'''Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad''' is a Norwegian physician and sexologist. Benestad has said that "for me there is no point being neither a man nor a woman. I am a trans person; that is my gender so to speak."<ref name="WWFD">{{Cite web |title=Interviews > Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad |author= |work=We Who Feel Differently |date=5 November 2009 |access-date=7 March 2021 |url= https://wewhofeeldifferently.info/interview.php?interview=43}}</ref> as well as "I am not a man, not a woman, but a very happy transperson!"<ref name="Kowalska">{{Cite web |title=Interview with Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad |author=Kowalska, Monika |work=The Heroines of My Life |date=20 December 2013 |access-date=7 March 2021 |url= https://theheroines.blogspot.com/2013/12/interview-with-esben-esther-pirelli.html }}</ref>

Benestad is married to sexologist Elsa Almås and is the parent of film director Even Benestad. 

In 2007, Benestad took part in the reality TV series ''Skal vi danse'' (Norwegian ''Dancing with the Stars'') and was voted out after four episodes. Benestad told the talk show ''God kveld, Norge!'' that Benestad was sometimes bullied by the judges for their [[trans]] identity.

Benestad has been a minor political candidate for the Liberal Party of Norway.

==Published books==
* ''Sexologi i praksis'', with Elsa Almås (1997, revised 2006)
* ''Kjønn i bevegelse'', with Elsa Almås (2001)
* ''Transseksualisme - hvor går vi og hvor står vi?'' (2002)
* ''Transekjønn og diagnoser'' (2004)
* ''Penisatlas'' (2005)

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