Norrie May-Welby: Difference between revisions

| pronouns=[[she/her]]<ref name="Groom">{{Cite web |title=An Interview with Australia's First Recognized Agender |last=Groom |first=Nelson |work=Vice |date=7 April 2014 |access-date=9 June 2020 |url= https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8gd84b/an-interview-with-australias-first-recognized-agender}}</ref> or [[they/them]]<ref name="Wolfgramme">{{Cite web |title=‘You will live through heaven and hell, but you will live’: non-binary advocate Norrie |last=Wolfgramme |first=Katherine |work=Star Observer |date=20 March 2019 |access-date=9 June 2020 |url= https://www.starobserver.com.au/news/national-news/new-south-wales-news/you-will-live-through-heaven-hell-but-you-will-live-non-binary-advocate-norrie/179534}}</ref>

| gender=*"I'm an [[androgynous]] person. [...] I am male, I am female, I am human."<ref name="YTinterview">{{Cite web |title=Interview with Norrie mAy Welby, the world's first officially recognised genderless person |author= |work=YouTube |date=7 March 2012 |access-date=9 June 2020 |url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy7QrZuJ1Jw}}</ref>

| occupation=cartoonist<ref name="Reynolds">{{Cite web |title=Norrie’s battle to get married despite being neither man nor woman |last=Reynolds |first=Emma |work=News.com.au |date=11 February 2016 |access-date=9 June 2020 |url= https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/relationships/marriage/norries-battle-to-get-married-despite-being-neither-man-nor-woman/news-story/74364f555980703ff29105037045edb6}}</ref>

The New South Wales Government Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages initially recognized Norrie as being neither male nor female with a registered details certificate stating "not specified" in 2010. However, the Registry rescinded its decision in a formal letter of cancellation on 17 March 2010. In response, Norrie filed a complaint with the Australian Human Rights Commission and to the Court of Appeal.<ref name="Potts">{{Cite web |title=Norrie backflip ‘a breach of rights’ |last=Potts |first=Andrew M |work=Star Observer |date=18 March 2010 |access-date=9 June 2020 |url= https://www.starobserver.com.au/news/national-news/new-south-wales-news/norrie-backflip-a-breach-of-rights/22950}}</ref> The Court of Appeal ruled in favour of Norrie but the Registrar appealed to the High Court. In April 2014 the High Court ruled that it was within the Registrar's power to record in the register that the sex of Norrie was "not specific".<ref>{{cite web|title=NSW Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages v Norrie|date=2 April 2014 |url=http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/HCA/2014/11.html}}</ref>