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Australia has become the first country to openly acknowledge  the existence of people who feel that they do not define as male or female.

The New South Wales government recently issued a ‘Sex Not Specified’ Recognised Details Certificate to 48-year-old Norrie, who lives in Sydney. Although born male, Norrie transitioned to female at the age of 23 before deciding that gender should not necessarily be mutually exclusive. Zie now defines as neuter, saying that “many intersexual children are traumatised by the obliteration of their sexual duality…This is just one tragic result of our society’s belief in mutually exclusive genders.”

This is a step forward for Australia’s LGBT population. Up until three years ago, trans Australians were able to apply for a passport that stated their “intended sex” as opposed to their biological sex at birth. If they had not had gender reassignment surgery - whether for financial or medical reasons, or simply out of personal choice involved - then they would have to travel under the sex to which they were assigned at birth.

Norrie, who describes hirself as “an androgynous but not sexless eunuch”, was forced to leave Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby in 1993 after a failed attempt to get bisexual and transgender issues on the group’s agenda.

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