Keenan Kellyix

American retired paralegal and intersex pioneer, who reportedly became the second person in the United States to legally change her sex to non-binary. The change was legalised on 26 September 2016 by the judge of a court in Santa Cruz, California. In December 2016, Keenan received a revised birth certificate with an Intersex sex marker from New York City. Previously, Ohio issued a birth certificate with a sex marker of hermaphrodite in 2012. Keenan chooses to use female pronouns. She was born intersex, with a condition known as Swyer Syndrome, or XY gonadal dysgenesis, a type of hypogonadism in a person whose karyotype is 46,XY. Typically she was externally female with streak gonads, which, if left untreated, would prevent the experience of puberty. Such gonads are typically surgically removed (as they have a significant risk of developing tumours) and a typical medical treatment would include hormone replacement therapy. Keenan was diagnosed with Swyers in adolescence and underwent the typical surgery. Having identified as female since birth, Keenan found out in her late forties from an endocrinologist that she was born intersex. Link to Legal recognition of intersex people Read less