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Title: No sex for me, please! Ex-transsexual Australian Norrie May-Welby is first lega
Post by: Shana A on March 17, 2010, 08:36:46 AM
No sex for me, please! Ex-transsexual Australian Norrie May-Welby is first legally genderless person

BY Maria Fugate
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Originally Published:Tuesday, March 16th 2010, 10:33 AM

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2010/03/16/2010-03-16_no_sex_for_me_please_extranssexual_briton_is_first_legally_genderless_person.html (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2010/03/16/2010-03-16_no_sex_for_me_please_extranssexual_briton_is_first_legally_genderless_person.html)

Census-takers may soon have to add a new check box for gender.

And the thanks for the confusion goes to Norrie May-Welby of Australia, who has passed as a man — and a woman — and is now the first person legally designated neither, London's Telegraph reports.

The genderless 48-year-old was born male in Scotland, and moved Down Under at age 7. Twenty-one years later, May-Welby underwent a sex change, but really wasn't happy living life as a woman either, according to Telegraph.co.uk.