Catholic ethicist backs androgyny recognition
Published: March 12, 2010

http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=19997

A leading Catholic ethicist has endorsed the decision to recognise a 48-year-old Sydney woman as the first person in NSW to officially be neither man nor woman.

The woman known as Norrie, has become the first person in NSW to be officially recognised as neither man nor woman by the state, receiving a certificate from the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages that says "sex not specified".

A spokeswoman for the Attorney-General's department confirmed it was the first such certificate to state non-specified gender, and that even intersex children have their sex determined within weeks of birth, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.

"The woman known as Norrie, has become the first person in NSW to be officially recognised as neither man nor woman by the state"

Logic fail.

If they are going to say "gender not specified" but continue to call this individual a woman, why not just legally change the gender marker to female and be done with it?

There are only a few reasons I think have a "gender not specified" marker would be a good idea:  intersex babies (let them choose which gender marker, if any, they want later on), androgynes that prefer no gender marker, bigender individuals who also prefer no gender marker, and those transitioning who are in that awkward in between stage.

Otherwise it seems ridiculous, and like Ketsy said, a logic fail.