A Sydney man has succeeded in having “sex not specified” placed on his government records -- which seems to make him the first officially androgynous adult in Australia. Norrie, a 48-year-old who was born in Scotland, uses only his first name. At 23 he started hormone treatment to become a woman and subsequently had gender reassignment surgery. But now he (he prefers the pronoun “zie”) has stopped taking hormones, preferring to live as neither male nor female.  “It's not a detail I think should be part of my identity,'' he said.

The law of the state of New South Wales had not contemplated the possibility of having neither sex on official documents. However, two registered doctors certified that Norrie is physically and psychologically androgynous and the authorities obliged. Norrie is now visiting various institutions to have the sex changed on his documents. ''I went into the bank and the woman's eyes lit up when she saw the certificate, and she said, 'What a good option','' Norrie told the Sydney Morning Herald. ~ SMH, Mar 12