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* '''Profession:''' author, playwright, performance artist, and gender theorist | * '''Profession:''' author, playwright, performance artist, and gender theorist | ||
* [[Kate Bornstein|Nonbinary Wiki entry]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Bornstein Wikipedia entry] / [http://katebornstein.typepad.com/ Kate's Blog] | * [[Kate Bornstein|Nonbinary Wiki entry]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Bornstein Wikipedia entry] / [http://katebornstein.typepad.com/ Kate's Blog] | ||
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==Tony Briffa== | |||
Tony Briffa is an Australian politician and intersex activist who feels she is nonbinary due to her intersex condition. She obtained a birth certificate with a blank sex designation.<ref>https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/-Healthy-hermaphrodite-is-both-man-and-woman.556257</ref> | |||
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* '''Nationality:''' Australian | |||
* '''Pronouns:''' As of March 2020, Tony's official website uses "she/her" pronouns<ref>http://briffa.org/tony_briffa</ref>, although she used "he/him" previously.<ref>[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tony-briffa-intersex-mayor_n_1140840 Tony Briffa Of Australia’s City Of Hobsons Bay Becomes World’s First Intersex Mayor]</ref> | |||
* '''Gender:''' "My natural female and male biology also reflected how I felt as a person. I'm more than just a woman or a man - I'm both."<ref>http://briffa.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/10483271_703814519672878_8146244864219099558_o.jpg</ref> "If people feel female that is great, and if they feel male that is great, but there are also people like me: I just accept the way nature made me. I am happy for my birth certificate to say that I am both male and female. One day, hopefully, we will have that as well."<ref>https://ihra.org.au/25037/cross-party-speeches-intersex-health-australian-senate/</ref> "Sex is about biology and gender is about identity. Like most people, my gender is consistent with my sex."<ref>https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/tony-briffa-worlds-first-openly-intersex-person-elected-public-office/</ref> "I am part Antoinette and I'm part Tony."<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFtXJOIxtPQ NICHE IDAHO Campaign: "I", Tony (YourStory)] August 3 2013</ref> | |||
* '''Profession:''' Politician and intersex advocate | |||
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