markers, on the basis of a mistaken original classification. Intersex activism Gross was a founder of Intersex South Africa, an autonomous intersex community organisation affiliated with Organisation Intersex International. In 2000, Sally secured the first known mention of intersex in national law, with the inclusion of "intersex" within the definition of "sex" in the anti-discrimination law of the Republic of South Africa. Since then, she helped to draft legislation on the Alteration of Sex Descriptors, and the Promotion of Equality. Gross was a public speaker on intersex issues, and she was interviewed by the BBC World Service on intersex and the Caster Semenya affair in September 2009. She appears in a video for It Gets Better South Africa in April 2013. Gross also participated in the first International Intersex Forum in 2011 and appears in the documentary Intersexion. Via Skype, Gross presented a paper entitled "Not in God's Image: Intersex, Social Death and Infanticide" to a conference on Intersex, Theology and the Bible in March 2013 by the Manchester University Religion and Civil Society Network. Death The Daily Maverick newspaper reported that Gross died alone in her apartment in Cape Town on 14 February 2014, "having been forced to appeal to friends for funds to pay rent and medical bills as her health deteriorated; she was virtually immobile." In obituaries by Organisation Intersex International, Intersex Trust Aotearoa New Zealand and the Star Observer newspaper, Gross is remembered as a gentle and fearless advocate, and a mentor. See also Intersex rights in South Africa References 1953 births 2014 deaths Converts to Roman Catholicism from Judaism Converts to Quakerism from Roman Catholicism Converts to Buddhism from Roman Catholicism Intersex women Intersex rights activists Jewish South African anti-apartheid activists South African activists South African women activists South African Jews South African Buddhists Intersex rights in South Africa Women civil rights activists White South African anti-apartheid activists