Miriam van der Have is an intersex human rights activist and woman with androgen insensitivity syndrome.

She is a co-founder and co-chair of OII Europe e.V in 2015, co-founder and managing director of NNID Foundation in the Netherlands [1][2] and member of the ILGA board (International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association) where she is Intersex Secretariat until spring 2019.

[2] Diagnosed with androgen insensitivity syndrome,[3] and subjected to surgical intervention,[4] van der Have is an intersex human rights advocate and documentary film maker.

[5][6] A former chair of Dutch androgen insensitivity syndrome group AISNederland,[7] van der Have is a founder of NNID Foundation and a co-founder of OII Europe.

For me intersex refers to the lived experience of the socio-cultural consequences of being born with a body that does not fit within the normative definitions of "man" and "woman."