Posted on 03/16/2010 9:16:33 AM PDT by presidio9
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.
Which left neuter, naturally — and that seemed to fit.
"The concepts of man or woman don't fit me," May-Welby said. "The simplest solution is not to have any sex identification."
And New South Wales government officials amended the Scottish Australian's birth certificate to reflect "no specific sex" after doctors were not able to make a gender determination, Telegraph.co.uk reported.
"There is no reason for still insisting that our legal identity must include a public statement about a very private matter, our sex," May-Welby wrote in, er, zie (a gender-neutral pronoun) blog.
The UK's Gender Trust welcomed the case. "Many people like the idea of being genderless," a spokesman said, according to the Telegraph.
The restroom question has yet to be formally addressed.
Ah, provided the body correctly read and executed properly the chromosome code.
There are indeed rare biological instances where it gets processed incorrectly, and you have feminine ladies who genetically are men. (I forget if vice-versa happens too....)
Can you play goalie?
I knew it, as soon as I posted.
Should have picked pine cone, Elm leaf, or palm frond.
Ruined my own joke....
How about enuch? Think that describes the situation.
Cool. Finally, someone who will speak the truth. I’ve got a conservative friend who has a friend who had a lopitofomy, and even he (the conservative) calls him a “she.” Drives me crazy.
It’s actually simpler than that. Got a “Y”, you’re male. No “Y,” you’re female. Lots of libtards think that there are genetically intermediate genders, like X-X-Y, or simply X (aka X-0). But XXY (Kleinfelter syndrome) is plainly male, and XO (Turner syndrome) is plainly female.
> So does he/she/it use the men’s room or the ladies’ room
Neither. It should use a litter box like other neutered animals.
Butchering your body is so EMO.
“No sex please, we’re British.”
There’s already a word for it: eunuch.
I guess we’ll have to add another letter to the ever lengthening LGBT acronymn. It’s already gotten up to LGBTQIA, I believe.
“What does LGBTQIA stand for? L = Lesbian; G = Gay; B = Bisexual; T = Transgender, Transsexual; Q = Queer, Questioning; I = Intersex; A = Ally, Asexual ...”
Actually, I guess asexual covers this already.
No they won't. A simple Y/N question is all that's required: Do you have a Y chromosome?
Neither. It should use a litter box like other neutered animals.
So, maybe it can be purchased as a pet. Being nuetered, the license would be cheaper.
I’m going to regret this, I know... but what does “intersex” mean?
Two relevant quotes:
1. “Rule One: NO POOFTERS!”
2. “That’s a man, baby!”
I wouldn’t mind becoming a fig leaf, if I got to choose what I got to cover...
A Eunuch eh? “Let us have Caledonia do her erotic temple dance in praise of Eros. If he is truly a Eunuch then nothing ....should arise.”
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