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Title: The facts about the new Australian passports’ X sex field designation policy
Post by: SandraJane on October 11, 2011, 06:02:15 AM
Intersex In Australia

The facts about the new Australian passports' X sex field designation policy

by admin on Sunday, 9 October, 2011

http://oiiaustralia.com/14763/facts-australian-passports-sex-field-intersex/ (http://oiiaustralia.com/14763/facts-australian-passports-sex-field-intersex/)

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Photo of an Australian passport showing an X in the Sex designation field.

THE first person to be granted an X on their passport here in Australia under the new Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade (DFAT) sex field designation policy announcement is a trans person named Norrie May Welby. The second was an intersex person from Organisation Intersex International Australia Limited (OII Australia).