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Title: 'In Between:' Living as Both Male and Female
Post by: Shana A on January 05, 2011, 08:10:45 AM
Post by: Shana A on January 05, 2011, 08:10:45 AM
'In Between:' Living as Both Male and Female
Australian Is the First Person Issued Gender Identity Papers Saying 'Sex Not Specified'
By NICK WATT AND SCOTT SHULMAN
Jan. 4, 2011
http://abcnews.go.com/International/australian-lives-male-female-sex-change/story?id=12529909 (http://abcnews.go.com/International/australian-lives-male-female-sex-change/story?id=12529909)
If you pass Norrie on the sidewalk, you won't be able to tell if she is a man or a woman.
The 49-year-old walks through her gritty Sydney, Australia neighborhood barefoot and wearing a dress. She is flat-chested, has an Adam's Apple, medium-sized feet and sports a haircut that could be male or female -- short in the back and on the sides, with a mop of long hair on top. She wears little or no make-up.
Norrie goes by only one name and is a self-described 'spansexual.' She was the first person in the world ever to be issued identity papers that state: "Sex Not Specified."
Australian Is the First Person Issued Gender Identity Papers Saying 'Sex Not Specified'
By NICK WATT AND SCOTT SHULMAN
Jan. 4, 2011
http://abcnews.go.com/International/australian-lives-male-female-sex-change/story?id=12529909 (http://abcnews.go.com/International/australian-lives-male-female-sex-change/story?id=12529909)
If you pass Norrie on the sidewalk, you won't be able to tell if she is a man or a woman.
The 49-year-old walks through her gritty Sydney, Australia neighborhood barefoot and wearing a dress. She is flat-chested, has an Adam's Apple, medium-sized feet and sports a haircut that could be male or female -- short in the back and on the sides, with a mop of long hair on top. She wears little or no make-up.
Norrie goes by only one name and is a self-described 'spansexual.' She was the first person in the world ever to be issued identity papers that state: "Sex Not Specified."
Title: ’Spansexual’ Aussie ’In Between’ Genders
Post by: Shana A on January 06, 2011, 07:54:18 AM
Post by: Shana A on January 06, 2011, 07:54:18 AM
'Spansexual' Aussie 'In Between' Genders
by Kilian Melloy
Wednesday Jan 5, 2011
http://www.edgeboston.com/news////114760/’spansexual’_aussie_’in_between’_genders (http://www.edgeboston.com/news////114760/’spansexual’_aussie_’in_between’_genders)
After being examined by not one, but two, physicians, an Australian named Norrie has become the first person to receive an official gender classification of "Not Specified." That suits Norrie fine: the 49-year-old, who was born anatomically male, identified as transgender, and finally came to embrace an identity that spans both male and female, offers the term "spansexual" as a self-description.
A Jan. 4 ABC News segment detailed how the Sydney, Australia resident, who goes by only one name, came to be the recipient of the unique gender classification. Norrie was born anatomically male in Scotland, emigrating to Australia as a child. The boy grew into an androgynous gay man who eventually tried on a transgender identity and even transitioned to a female anatomy, supplementing the surgical changes with hormone therapy.
by Kilian Melloy
Wednesday Jan 5, 2011
http://www.edgeboston.com/news////114760/’spansexual’_aussie_’in_between’_genders (http://www.edgeboston.com/news////114760/’spansexual’_aussie_’in_between’_genders)
After being examined by not one, but two, physicians, an Australian named Norrie has become the first person to receive an official gender classification of "Not Specified." That suits Norrie fine: the 49-year-old, who was born anatomically male, identified as transgender, and finally came to embrace an identity that spans both male and female, offers the term "spansexual" as a self-description.
A Jan. 4 ABC News segment detailed how the Sydney, Australia resident, who goes by only one name, came to be the recipient of the unique gender classification. Norrie was born anatomically male in Scotland, emigrating to Australia as a child. The boy grew into an androgynous gay man who eventually tried on a transgender identity and even transitioned to a female anatomy, supplementing the surgical changes with hormone therapy.