Multiple countries legally recognize non-binary or third-gender classifications. In some countries, such classifications may only be available to intersex people, born with sex characteristics that "do not fit the typical definitions for male or female bodies". In other countries, they may only (or also) be available to people with gender identities that differ from their sex assigned at birth.

Some non-western societies have long recognized transgender and/or non-binary people as a third gender, though this may not (or may only recently) include formal legal recognition. Among western nations, Australia may have been the first to recognize a third classification...

Peppermint in 2017

Peppermint, or Miss Peppermint (born 1979), is an American actress, singer, songwriter, television personality, drag queen, and activist. She is best known from the nightlife scene and, in 2017, as the runner-up on the ninth season of RuPaul's Drag Race. In 2018, Peppermint made her debut in The Go-Go's-inspired musical Head Over Heels as Pythio, becoming Broadway's first out trans woman to originate a lead role.

As a recording artist, she has released two studio albums, Hardcore Glamour, released in 2009, and Black Pepper, released in 2017, as well as five EPs, including A Girl Like Me: Letters to My Lovers, which was released in 2020. In December 2023, she was announced as a part of the cast of the second season of The Traitors.

• ... that transgender pioneer Barbara Ann Wilcox proposed to her husband on the day she met him?
• ... that The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes discusses the history of transgender man Ewan Forbes and his 1968 legal case to inherit his family's baronetcy that was silenced from public records?
• ... that Anjali Lama, Nepal's first transgender model, worked with Calvin Klein in 2019?
• ... that the Chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont inspired the name of the transgender rights organisation the Beaumont Society?
• ... that París Galán, who introduced a style of drag performance in Bolivia, became the first-ever transgender individual to win elective office in the country?
• ... that Quinn became the first out, transgender, non-binary athlete to medal at the Summer Olympic Games when they won gold with the Canada national soccer team?

• 7 – Karin Dreijer (1975), Swedish gender fluid singer-songwriter and record producer
• 8 – Roberta Cowell (1918), British trans woman racing driver and fighter pilot
• 13 – Carmen Carrera (1985), American television personality, actress and model
• 18 – Audrey Tang (1981), Taiwanese programmer and government minister
• 20 – Gigi Gorgeous (1992), Canadian actress, YouTuber, model
• 23 – Geraldine Roman (1967), Filipino journalist and politician
• 28 – Leiomy Maldonado (1987), American dancer, instructor and model
• 29 – April Ashley (1935), British model

• ... that the 2015 State of the Union Address was the first State of the Union Address in which the President of the United States used the words " gay", " lesbian", and " transgender"?
• ... that Nicole Maines won a Maine Supreme Court ruling that denying transgender students access to the bathroom consistent with their gender was unlawful, and went on to become the superheroine Dreamer in the television series Supergirl?
• ... that in 1776, a person reported being genderless, changed names to the Public Universal Friend, dressed androgynously, asked not to be referred to with gendered pronouns, and has been called a chapter in transgender history "before ' transgender'"?

But if we cannot know what causes transsexuality, we can know a great deal about it. We can acknowledge its power and its reality, we can learn about other transsexual people and their experiences, and we can discover its ancient worldwide history.