History of nonbinary gender: Difference between revisions

* [[Intersex]] Australian Alex MacFarlane believed to be the first person in Australia to obtain a birth certificate recording sex as indeterminate, and the first Australian passport with an "X" sex marker. Australia began to let people mark their gender as "X" on their birth certificates and passports.<ref>{{cite web|last=Butler|first=Julie|title=X marks the spot for intersex Alex|archive-date=11 November 2013|work=The West Australian |date=11 January 2003 |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6L2hqf44G?url=http://www.bodieslikeours.org/pdf/xmarks.pdf |url=http://www.bodieslikeours.org/pdf/xmarks.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Holme|first=Ingrid|year=2008 |title= Hearing People's Own Stories|journal=Science as Culture|volume=17|issue=3|pages=341–344| doi=10.1080/09505430802280784| url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09505430802280784}}</ref>

* In 2009, India began to allow voters outside the gender binary to "register their gender as '[[other]]' on ballots submitted to the Election Commission."<ref name="AdvocateIndia">{{cite web|author=Sunnivie Brydum|title=Indian Supreme Court Recognizes Third Gender.|date=April 15, 2014|work=The Advocate| url= https://www.advocate.com/world/2014/04/15/indian-supreme-court-recognizes-third-gender}}</ref>