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Illustrated portrait of person in colonial-era hat and dress, looking off to the side.
<p>Illustration of Thomas(ine) Hall, an intersex person from colonial Virginia.</p>

First legal recognition of intersex people in what will become the United States.

1630

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<p>Illustration of Thomas(ine) Hall, an intersex person from colonial Virginia.</p>

Colonial Virginia Governor John Pott rules that Thomas(ine) Hall (born 1603) has a "dual-nature" gender.