Norrie backflip ‘a breach of rights’

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Norrie backflip 'a breach of rights'

Author:
    Andrew M Potts
Posted:
    Thursday, 18 March 2010

http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2010/03/18/norrie-backflip-a-breach-of-rights/22950

Well-known community activist norrie mAy-welby has lodged a complaint with the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) after the NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages backflipped on issuing norrie with a recognised details certificate with "sex not specified" written on it.

Norrie and the Sex And Gender Education (SAGE) lobby group believe the backflip is a breach of norrie's rights under both the Australian Sex Discrimination Act 1984 and the United Nations Charter of Human Rights which protects a person's right to self-determine their own social identity.