Briton is recognized as world's first officially genderless person

Tuesday, March 16th 2010 - 21:56 UTC

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A British expat who claims to have no gender is thought to have become the first person to be officially recognized as neither male nor female.

Norrie May-Welby, 48, was born a man but had a sex change operation in 1990, at the age of 28, reports the London Telegraph.

After becoming unhappy as a woman, May-Welby decided to become a “neuter”. The 48-year-old is now officially recognized as a person of no specific gender.

May-Welby migrated to Australia at the age of seven after being born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland.

Officials there altered the Briton’s birth certificate to include the new no-gender classification after doctors were apparently unable to determine the sex of the expat’s body.

May-Welby said: “The concepts of man or woman don’t fit me. The simplest solution is not to have any sex identification”. He added “there is no reason for still insisting that our legal identity must include a public statement about a very private matter, our sex”.

The UK’s Gender Trust welcomed the case. A spokesman said: “Many people like the idea of being genderless.”

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ghlp
What is the world comoing too? freak !
Mar 17th, 2010 - 11:37 am 0
Rhaurie-Craughwell
He was genetically born a man, unless the X Y chromosones have dissapeared entirely and his genetic structure altered, he is therefore still a man, you do not become genderless or a women after a bit of superficial wallpapering.

But it's their choice, I will not stop them, this is after all a form of self determination in it's most basic of forms.
Mar 17th, 2010 - 12:23 pm 0
Nicholas
This is madness. This is just typical “progressive” ultra left wing so called free thinking garbage, who just want to destroy the world. This is another prove that Europe is in Moral decline..a culture of death/destruction.
Mar 17th, 2010 - 08:37 pm 0

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