'Spansexual' Aussie 'In Between' Genders
by Kilian Melloy
Wednesday Jan 5, 2011
http://www.edgeboston.com/news////114760/’spansexual’_aussie_’in_between’_gendersAfter 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.