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[arethinn]

Briton is recognised as world's first officially genderless person

A British expat who claims to have no gender is thought to have become the first person to be officially recognised as neither male or female.

(..."claims to"? I would think xe'd be the authority on the subject.)

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[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Ah ... that's the British press for you ... Norrie has been an Australian for years and was a stalwart of the local GLBT scene when I arrived here. Lovely person!

[arethinn]

Norrie has been an Australian for years

So I see, but they seem to be talking of born nationality (is xe naturalized as an Australian?) and it's a British agency involved, isn't it?

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

No, not at all, it's the government of New South Wales! Probably the first sensible thing done by such in years ;-)

And I think zie is an Australian citizen now, yes.

[arethinn]

"May-Welby emigrated to Australia at the age of seven after being born in Paisley, Renfrewshire. Officials there altered the Briton’s birth certificate" -- I assumed "there" meant Renfrewshire, referring to the original birth certificate. Does it mean Australian officials, then?

And then there's a mention of "UK’s Gender Trust", which erm, I assumed was in the UK?

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I think, from reading about it in the gay press here, that the details were followed up on the actual birth certificate once the status was granted here. This was how it was reported in the mainstream press here: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/sexless-in-the-city-a-gender-revolution-20100311-q1l2.html

[elven-ranger.livejournal.com]

yay! I want to be genderless!

[arethinn]

Ask in Renfrewshire, then, lol.

[arethinn]

Cool.

I still find it a little odd, all this having to produce doctor evidence and things. I mean, a signed letter is one thing, but an MTF acquaintance of mine was trying to get her sex changed on her passport, and was confronted with bizarre and privacy-invading things like a request for photographs of her genitalia to prove she was no longer male!

I'm amused by the pronoun phrase " 'blah blah', neither he nor she said." I feel like it should be hyphenated, heh. They should have just said "zie" and then followed it with the clarifying statement that it was Norrie's preference. (I like the ones formed with "x" myself, xe/xir, since it conveys more of that "neither/variable" quality visually.)