Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad

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." as well as "I am not a man, not a woman, but a very happy transperson!"

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