fcyeah:This is an ABC Drum article about the case that’s currently being considered in the A
fcyeah: This is an ABC Drum article about the case that’s currently being considered in the Australian High Court. Importantly, a non-binary trans person, Norrie, is asking to be legally recognised as a thrid sex - preferring intersex, but intersex people could suffer and must get recognition for their lived experience of being intersex - not have it confused with issues of identity and transition. Intersex Australian advocates support Norrie being recognised with other non-binary legal category options that do not appropriate intersex. Read this media release ‘High Court: NSW Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages v. Norrie’ and the papers linked from it by oiiaustralia for more information on their concerns and the risks this case poses for intersex people: The reliance on surgery to confirm an identity, and the conflation of (post-surgery) intermediate sex appearance and an intersex identity both risk reinforcing perceptions that bodies and identities, sex and gender, must match each other to be valid. The impact of this on people born intersex is that it reinforces contentious surgeries to make intersex people ‘appear’ male or female. Yet the goals of the intersex movement are to be accepted the way we are born. Important stuff! AND if Norrie wins the right to recognition as another non-binary legal status, that would be great for non-binary people’s legal recognition in Australia! :) -- source link
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