Australia is first nation to recognise 'non-specified' gender
source: http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/03/11/australia-is-first-to-recognise-non-specified-gender/
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Australia may have made gender history this week, as the New South Wales government lays claim to being the first in the world to recognise an individual’s sex as officially “not specified”.
This milestone in the evolution of gender queer came about with the issuing of a ‘Sex Not Specified’ Recognised Details Certificate in place of a birth certificate to Norrie (also known as norrie mAy-Welby) a resident of Sydney...
Zie states: “I wonder if we in Western culture would have more options for happiness if we too had permission not simply to be of one gender or the other, but also to be of both genders, if such was our nature."
This milestone in the evolution of gender queer came about with the issuing of a ‘Sex Not Specified’ Recognised Details Certificate in place of a birth certificate to Norrie (also known as norrie mAy-Welby) a resident of Sydney...
Zie states: “I wonder if we in Western culture would have more options for happiness if we too had permission not simply to be of one gender or the other, but also to be of both genders, if such was our nature."
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lilpos4str
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Objects have gender, people have sex. : )
- 2 years ago
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lilpos4str
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donkeyfly69
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aren't there non-western countries that recognize other genders? culturally if not legally? i don't think they are the first, except among western countries.
either way i think it's a great step foward
- 2 years ago
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donkeyfly69
