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

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

1630

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Illustration of Thomas(ine) Hall, an intersex person from colonial Virginia.

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