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.
I’m curious.
How does he/she/it write their name in the snow ??
“Ah, he is a eunuch... HE is a eunuch... He’s dead!”
“Ah, he is a eunuch... HE is a eunuch... He’s dead!”
They WTH is it announcing it to the whole world?!?!
What a hypocrite.
FWIW, there's already a gender neutral pronoun....."IT".
Say, lj, you might not want to reconsider that position on the end times?
er, I meant *want to*
Or something.
We have a male-to-female transsexual on cast at my Festival. I try not to talk ABOUT him, because performers are by and large a liberal group and will dogpile on me for calling him “he.” To his face, though, there’s no problem, because “you” is neutral.
So if it thought it was a cat, would they want you to call it "Fluffy"?
If I need to talk about him when he’s not there, I call him by his first name.
Otherkin are people who identify in some way as non-human. Broadly defined, while otherkin are human in outward form, they believe themselves to be in spirit what are generally considered to be mythological or legendary creatures. Some may claim to be able to shift mentally - meaning that they may experience the sense of being in their particular form while not actually changing physically. The existence of Otherkin is variably explained as being made possible through reincarnation, having a nonhuman soul, ancestry, or symbolic metaphor.
Common creatures otherkin identify as include angels, demons, dragons, elves, extra-terrestrials, fairies, kitsune, lycanthropes (werewolves), and vampires.
Otherkin Internet Communities
The oldest Internet resource for otherkin is the Elfinkind Digest; a mailing list started in 1990 by a student at the University of Kentucky for "elves and interested observers". Also in the early 1990s, newsgroups such as alt.horror.werewolves and alt.fan.dragons on Usenet, which were initially created for fans of these creatures in the context of fantasy and horror literature and films, also developed followings which identified as mythological beings.
On 6 February 1995, a document titled the "Elven Nation Manifesto" was posted to Usenet, including the groups alt.pagan and alt.magick. On Usenet itself, the document was universally panned and considered to be either a troll or an attempt to frame an innocent party. However, enough people contacted the original author of the Elven Nation post in good faith for a mailing list to spin off from it.
The modern otherkin subculture grew out of these elven online communities of the early-to-mid-1990s, with the earliest recorded use of the term otherkin appearing in July of 1990 and the variant otherkind being reported as early as April 1990. The therian, vampire, and draconic subcultures are related to the otherkin community somewhat, and are considered part of it by most otherkin, but are culturally distinct movements of their own despite some overlap in membership.
All this discussion, and the most important point has not yet been brought up - would Laz hit it?
I don't know for sure, because this stuff changes faster than you can keep up with if you're not a gay activist. But I suspect that it means someone who is in transition between sexes, or maybe someone who is halfway in between and hasn't yet decided.
No you didn’t!
Itt has a lovely gothic wife.
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