An Australian citizen has what's believed to be a world-first 'Sex Not Specified' Recognised Details Certificate instead of a birth certificate.
Gender-diverse Sydney resident Norrie was born a male, but did not feel completely comfortable with becoming fully female after beginning gender reassignment. Norrie now has a 'neuter' gender identity and resists normalisation as a male or female, reports Aussie alternative news website The Scavenger.
"Those concepts, man or woman, just don't fit me, they are not my actual reality, and, if applied to me, they are fiction," explains Norrie.
"At 48 years of age, I'm less inclined to just humour other people's delusions about gender and try and conform to one of their expected options."
New South Wales' Births Deaths and Marriages office issued Norrie the 'Sex Not Specified' Details Recognition Certificate following the Australian Human Rights Commission's recent research into the legal rights of sex and gender diverse people, which proposed a greater scope of legal recognition beyond the binary 'male' and 'female'.
