Norrie May-Welby

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Norrie May-Welby ( Sydney 2013)

Norrie May-Welby (born 23. May 1961 in Paisley , Renfrewshire , Scotland as Bruce Norrie Watson ) is British - Australian nationality, cartoonistisch and activist worked and successfully fought in 2014 in Australia court, neither man nor a woman civil status to be registered.

Life

Norrie was born a boy in Scotland. Seven years later, the parents emigrated to Australia with their son. In 1989, Norrie underwent gender reassignment surgery and was officially registered as a woman. After a while, however, Norrie refused to continue taking appropriate hormones . In Norrie the decision matured to live neither as a woman nor as a man. The Hamburger Zeit wrote in 2010: "Norrie May-Welby does not see herself as a neuter: 'I face female friends as female, gay friends as a queen like you.'" Norrie herself would like no gender indication (or non-binary ) and labeling to be " androgynous anarchist " (compare postgenderism ). The surname May-Welby sounds like may-well be: “could also be”, a separate blog is appropriately titled: “I who may well be…”.

Norrie lives in Sydney , Australia. When asked about the preferred pronouns , Norrie said in March 2019 that she was in agreement with both feminine and singular they (untranslatable in German).

Official

First, under this name, Norrie May-Welby had submitted a form to the registry of the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages) in 2010 to change the gender entry for immigrants , after the government had previously issued one for immigrants allowed (intended for transsexual people). Norrie's request to leave the entry expressly blank was complied with and a document issued with the text sex not specified . Afterwards Norrie wanted to get a corresponding entry in the passport . But a few months later the registry office corrected the measure, stating that a mistake had been made and Norrie had to make a decision: Without being classified as “male” or “female”, it would not be possible to participate in general legal transactions.

After years of legal action by several instances, the Australian Supreme Court in the capital Canberra finally ruled in March 2014 that the assignment as a man or woman is not absolutely necessary, a gender entry as non-specific is also permissible . In almost all legal matters, gender is irrelevant - except in relation to Australian marriage law , according to which only men and women can marry ( same-sex marriages were also allowed in 2018 ). The court rejected the required third category of gender as " intersexual " or " transgender ". Nevertheless, the judges declared: “ not all human beings can be classified by sex as either male or female” . This decision - although initially only binding for New South Wales - also eliminated the need to provide evidence of a gender reassignment operation in the event of a change in gender assignment.

Marriage wish

In October 2015, Norrie and Sam Choy wanted to get married , but were turned away by the registry office; was writing referred to the marriage law, in which it would be: "A marriage is the connection between a man and a woman" (marriage is the union of a man and woman) . Norrie planned to reach out to the United Nations about the possibility of gender-independent marriage . In November 2017, with the introduction of same-sex marriage , the Australian Parliament decided to change the definition of marriage: " the union of two people" .

First person with indefinite gender

Although Norrie claims to be the first person worldwide whose gender is officially recognized as "unspecified" in the summer of 2019, Alex MacFarlane has had an Australian gender entry as an "X" since 2003. Some time before Norrie, Tony Briffa submitted a change request issued an Australian document with the gender entry left open (see also Legal Recognition of Non-Binary Persons ).

plant

Under the artist name “norrie mAy-welby”, Norrie designs cartoons for the neighborhood newspaper South Sydney Herald .

In August 2019, the autobiography was self-published under the name Norrie: UltraSex: (Beyond Division) and is also available as an e-book on Apple's iTunes .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Norrie May-Welby in the Internet Movie Database (English) , accessed on 30 November of 2019.
  2. ↑ a b c d Helene Bubrowski: Intersexuality: Barbie below, Ken above. In: FAZ.net . April 2, 2014, accessed November 30, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b Hellmuth Vensky: Gender identity: Neither man nor woman. In: Zeit Online . March 17, 2010, accessed November 30, 2019.
  4. ↑ Norrie May-Welby: I who may well be… In: may-welby.blogspot.com. 2019, accessed on November 30, 2019.
  5. ↑ Norrie May-Welby, interviewed by Katherine Wolfgramme: “You will live through heaven and hell, but you will live”: non-binary advocate Norrie. In: StarObserver.com.au. Sydney, March 20, 2019, accessed November 30, 2019.
    Note: The Star Observer is Australia's oldest LGBT magazine (since 1979) and claims to have 200,000 readers.
  6. ^ A b Joel Gibson: Sexless in the city: a gender revolution. In: SydneyMorningHerald.com.au . March 12, 2010, accessed November 30, 2019.
    A week later: Joel Gibson: Government backtracks on gender ruling. March 19, 2010 (English).
  7. ^ A b Steve Dow: Neither man nor woman. In: SydneyMorningHerald.com.au . June 27, 2010, accessed November 30, 2019.
  8. ^ A b Paul Bibby, Dan Harrison: Neither man nor woman: Norrie wins gender appeal. In: SydneyMorningHerald.com.au . April 2, 2014, accessed November 30, 2019.
  9. ^ Message (dpa): Intersexuality: Norrie may finally be a neuter. In: Spiegel Online . April 2, 2014, accessed November 30, 2019.
  10. ↑ Emma Reynolds: Marriage: Norrie's battle to get married despite being neither man nor woman. In: News.com.au. February 11, 2016, accessed November 30.
  11. ^ Damien Cave, Jacqueline Williams: Australia Makes Same-Sex Marriage Legal. In: NYtimes.com . December 7, 2017, accessed November 30.
  12. ↑ Channel information on the video by Real Folk Stories: Norrie: An intimate portrait of the world's first legally recognized genderless person on YouTube, June 13, 2019 (English; 6 minutes; documentation by Chi Chi Menendez and Paul van Kan).
    Quote: “Norrie became the world's first legally recognized genderless person. As a result, Australia was the first western country in the world to legally recognize a non-specific gender status. "
  13. ↑ Julie Butler: X Marks the Spot for Intersex Alex. In: Western Australian newspaper. Perth, January 11, 2003 (English; PDF: 119 kB, 2 pages on bodieslikeours.org ( memento of November 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive )).
  14. ^ A b Morgan Carpenter: Ten years of 'X' passports, and no protection from discrimination. In: IHRA.org.au. Intersex Human Rights Australia (IHRA), January 12, 2013, accessed November 30, 2019.
  15. ↑ Overview: norrie mAy-welby: 71 posts. In: SouthSydneyHerald.com.au. November 4, 2019, accessed November 30, 2019.
  16. ^ Norrie May-Welby (pre-release): Norrie releases autobiography, "Ultrasex: (Beyond Division)". In: StarObserver.com.au. Sydney, November 26, 2019, accessed November 30, 2019 (English; the autobiography was self-published under ISBN 978-1-68957-331-3 ).
personal data
SURNAME May-Welby, Norrie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Watson, Norrie Bruce (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-Australian person, cartoonist, activist, officially genderless
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Paisley , Renfrewshire , Scotland