Meet Leonne Zeegers, the first gender-neutral Dutch citizen
(The Guardian Netherlands)

A former nurse, insurance agent and champion swimmer has won a landmark court victory to identify as gender neutral. In a remarkable interview, the former athlete and nurse tells of her life `born in two sexes´Leonne Zeegers was five years old, splashing in the family´s bathtub with her siblings, when her sister shrieked and giggled at the `something between my legs`. It was the first time Zeegers remembers feeling different. `My sister was eight then, she said `eh, you´re a boy!´ and I was crying because I didn´t want to be a boy, I wanted to be like my sisters.`Zeegers was born intersex in 1961, in the picturesque village of Swallen on the German-Dutch border, to Catholic parents who worked as an architect and a housekeeper at the local church.Sex is between your legs, gender is between your ears. The body is just a suitcase for carrying your gender Continue reading...