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| Poet and activist
| Poet and activist
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| [[Jonatahn Rachel Clynch]]
| [[Jonathan Rachel Clynch]]
| align=center| 1971
| align=center| 1971
| Irish
| Irish
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| Writer, public speaker
| Writer, public speaker
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| [[Wikipedia:Public Universal Friend]]
| [[Wikipedia:Public Universal Friend|Public Universal Friend]]
| align=center| 1752
| align=center| 1752
| American
| American
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| American
| [[Androgyne]], [[history of nonbinary gender#1890s|invert]], [[history of nonbinary gender#1870s|urning]], bisexual (in the sense of being both male and female), and fairie, which were contemporary terms for gender and sexual variance. June wrote of feeling like a combination of male and female, and of alternating between these two gender expressions.<ref name="Meyerowitz 2010">Meyerowitz, J. "Thinking Sex With An Androgyne". ''GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies'' 17.1 (2010): 97–105. Web. Retrieved April 13, 2017.</ref>
| [[Androgyne]], [[history of nonbinary gender#1890s|invert]], [[history of nonbinary gender#1870s|urning]], bisexual (in the sense of being both male and female), and fairie, which were contemporary terms for gender and sexual variance. June wrote of feeling like a combination of male and female, and of alternating between these two gender expressions.<ref name="Meyerowitz 2010">Meyerowitz, J. "Thinking Sex With An Androgyne". ''GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies'' 17.1 (2010): 97–105. Web. Retrieved April 13, 2017.</ref>
| Law clerk, and activist for the human rights of inverts. June was one of the earliest trans people to publish an autobiography in the USA.<ref name="Yale">{{Cite web|url=http://www.yale.edu/lesbiangay/Pages/Archive/PNB9.html|title=Lesbian and Gay Studies at Yale: Earl Lind 1874|date=n.d.|publisher=Yale University|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080604130335/http://www.yale.edu/lesbiangay/Pages/Archive/PNB9.html|archive-date=4 June 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.outhistory.org/wiki/Earl_Lind_(Ralph_Werther-Jennie_June):_The_Riddle_of_the_Underworld,_1921|title=Earl Lind (Ralph Werther-Jennie June): The Riddle of the Underworld, 1921|date=October 9, 2010|publisher=Out History|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130627194013/http://www.outhistory.org/wiki/Earl_Lind_(Ralph_Werther-Jennie_June):_The_Riddle_of_the_Underworld,_1921|archive-date=June 27, 2013|url-status=dead|access-date=May 5, 2012}}</ref> June's goal in writing these books was to help create an accepting environment for young adults who don't conform to gender and sexual norms, and to prevent them from committing suicide.<ref name="Meyerowitz 2010">Meyerowitz, J. "Thinking Sex With An Androgyne". ''GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies'' 17.1 (2010): 97–105. Web. Retrieved April 13, 2017.</ref> June formed an androgyne rights group, the Cercle Hermaphroditos, along with other androgynes in New York, "to unite for defense against the world's bitter persecution," and to show that it was natural to be gender and sex variant.<ref>Katz, Jonathan Ned. "Transgender Memoir of 1921 Found". ''Humanities and Social Sciences Online''. N.p., 10 October 2010. Web. Retrieved April 13, 2017.</ref>
| Law clerk and activist. June was one of the earliest trans people to publish an autobiography in the USA,<ref name="Yale">{{Cite web|url=http://www.yale.edu/lesbiangay/Pages/Archive/PNB9.html|title=Lesbian and Gay Studies at Yale: Earl Lind 1874|date=n.d.|publisher=Yale University|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080604130335/http://www.yale.edu/lesbiangay/Pages/Archive/PNB9.html|archive-date=4 June 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.outhistory.org/wiki/Earl_Lind_(Ralph_Werther-Jennie_June):_The_Riddle_of_the_Underworld,_1921|title=Earl Lind (Ralph Werther-Jennie June): The Riddle of the Underworld, 1921|date=October 9, 2010|publisher=Out History|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130627194013/http://www.outhistory.org/wiki/Earl_Lind_(Ralph_Werther-Jennie_June):_The_Riddle_of_the_Underworld,_1921|archive-date=June 27, 2013|url-status=dead|access-date=May 5, 2012}}</ref> to help create an accepting environment for young adults who don't conform to gender and sex norms.<ref name="Meyerowitz 2010">Meyerowitz, J. "Thinking Sex With An Androgyne". ''GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies'' 17.1 (2010): 97–105. Web. Retrieved April 13, 2017.</ref> June and other androgynes in New York formed the Cercle Hermaphroditos, "to unite for defense against the world's bitter persecution," and to show that it was natural to be gender and sex variant.<ref>Katz, Jonathan Ned. "Transgender Memoir of 1921 Found". ''Humanities and Social Sciences Online''. N.p., 10 October 2010. Web. Retrieved April 13, 2017.</ref>
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| [[M.A.JOY]]
| [[M.A.JOY]]
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| American
| Nonbinary. "I'm like this weird non binary alien nerd and I think I'm okay with that."<ref>[https://twitter.com/CaseyTheVA/status/1080609580193787905 Tweet on January 2, 2019]</ref>
| Nonbinary. "I'm like this weird non binary alien nerd and I think I'm okay with that."<ref>[https://twitter.com/CaseyTheVA/status/1080609580193787905 Tweet on January 2, 2019]</ref>
| Voice actor. Mongillo has played many roles in animation and video games, best known for portraying lead character Shinji Ikari in the Netflix English dub of Neon Genesis Evangelion. Carol Grant, in an opinion piece for ''[[Vice (magazine)|Vice]]'', wrote that Shinji being played by a [[transgender|trans]] actor made the series feel more [[queer]], saying that "Mongillo's delivery captures the delicate interplay between the masculine and feminine aspects of Shinji's voice and personality, bringing his bodily and gendered anxieties to life".<ref name="Vice">{{Cite web |url=https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/neap3g/neon-genesis-evangelion-feels-more-explicitly-queer-thanks-to-this-trans-voice-actor-netflix |title='Neon Genesis Evangelion' Feels More Explicitly Queer Thanks to This Trans Voice Actor |last=Grant |first=Carol |date=July 12, 2019 |work=[[Vice (magazine)|Vice]] |language=en-US |access-date=July 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190717030707/https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/neap3g/neon-genesis-evangelion-feels-more-explicitly-queer-thanks-to-this-trans-voice-actor-netflix |archive-date=July 17, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>
| Voice actor. Mongillo has played many roles in animation and video games, best known for portraying lead character Shinji Ikari in the Netflix English dub of Neon Genesis Evangelion.<ref name="Vice">{{Cite web |url=https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/neap3g/neon-genesis-evangelion-feels-more-explicitly-queer-thanks-to-this-trans-voice-actor-netflix |title='Neon Genesis Evangelion' Feels More Explicitly Queer Thanks to This Trans Voice Actor |last=Grant |first=Carol |date=July 12, 2019 |work=[[Vice (magazine)|Vice]] |language=en-US |access-date=July 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190717030707/https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/neap3g/neon-genesis-evangelion-feels-more-explicitly-queer-thanks-to-this-trans-voice-actor-netflix |archive-date=July 17, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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| [[Kent Monkman]]
| [[Kent Monkman]]
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