Comments on: Australian Genderless Person Loses Official Status http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2010/03/australian-genderless-person-loses-official-status/ The official Derren Brown Blog Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:29:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Dylan http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2010/03/australian-genderless-person-loses-official-status/#comment-54472 Dylan Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:53:54 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=10969#comment-54472 @Gali For goodness sake for the most you are born one or the other. Very few are born both and they are usually more of one than the other. You can’t swap and choose as the mood takes you. How on earth can ‘it’ lodge an appeal under the sex decrimination act if ‘it’ is claiming to have no sex! Agreed, you can't swap and choose as the mood takes you. Transgendered people did not swap out of choice. In fact, they did not 'swap' their gender at all. Their gender did not match their sex. Sex can be changed more than gender, and so this is the one changed as much as possible. Their gender is the one that matters, and the one that is recorded. @Gali
For goodness sake for the most you are born one or the other. Very few are born both and they are usually more of one than the other. You can’t swap and choose as the mood takes you.
How on earth can ‘it’ lodge an appeal under the sex decrimination act if ‘it’ is claiming to have no sex!

Agreed, you can’t swap and choose as the mood takes you.
Transgendered people did not swap out of choice. In fact, they did not ‘swap’ their gender at all. Their gender did not match their sex. Sex can be changed more than gender, and so this is the one changed as much as possible. Their gender is the one that matters, and the one that is recorded.

]]> By: Gail http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2010/03/australian-genderless-person-loses-official-status/#comment-54428 Gail Mon, 22 Mar 2010 23:29:48 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=10969#comment-54428 For goodness sake for the most you are born one or the other. Very few are born both and they are usually more of one than the other. You can't swap and choose as the mood takes you. How on earth can 'it' lodge an appeal under the sex decrimination act if 'it' is claiming to have no sex! For goodness sake for the most you are born one or the other. Very few are born both and they are usually more of one than the other. You can’t swap and choose as the mood takes you.
How on earth can ‘it’ lodge an appeal under the sex decrimination act if ‘it’ is claiming to have no sex!

]]> By: Naddig74 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2010/03/australian-genderless-person-loses-official-status/#comment-54379 Naddig74 Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:03:37 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=10969#comment-54379 Remove all mention of gender/sex from documentation. Everyone registered only as name and a date of birth. Then the personal issue of gender is down to the person in question, and noones business but their own. Remove all mention of gender/sex from documentation. Everyone registered only as name and a date of birth. Then the personal issue of gender is down to the person in question, and noones business but their own.

]]> By: RColdbreath http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2010/03/australian-genderless-person-loses-official-status/#comment-54370 RColdbreath Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:38:17 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=10969#comment-54370 This is such a shame and must be quite crushing for poor Norrie. It's ridiculous, given that there have always been TG/genderqueer people throughout human history, that we're still incapable of operating anything other than a binary system, and only celebrating the poles. I do wish the human race would grow up a bit. This is such a shame and must be quite crushing for poor Norrie. It’s ridiculous, given that there have always been TG/genderqueer people throughout human history, that we’re still incapable of operating anything other than a binary system, and only celebrating the poles. I do wish the human race would grow up a bit.

]]> By: niannah http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2010/03/australian-genderless-person-loses-official-status/#comment-54368 niannah Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:33:10 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=10969#comment-54368 I hope the complaint is upheld and that this person can register as any or no gender as they please. It seems absurd to cling on to an outdated gender binary when we learn more and more about the diversity of gender every year. I hope the complaint is upheld and that this person can register as any or no gender as they please. It seems absurd to cling on to an outdated gender binary when we learn more and more about the diversity of gender every year.

]]> By: spiderabc1 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2010/03/australian-genderless-person-loses-official-status/#comment-54363 spiderabc1 Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:26:50 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=10969#comment-54363 Guinness book of records for this 'dude' then. Bet a pint of Murphys would go down well just now. Guinness book of records for this ‘dude’ then. Bet a pint of Murphys would go down well just now.

]]> By: Chris White http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2010/03/australian-genderless-person-loses-official-status/#comment-54362 Chris White Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:53:03 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=10969#comment-54362 So what have they decided "it" is then? So what have they decided “it” is then?

]]> By: Ethan Caine http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2010/03/australian-genderless-person-loses-official-status/#comment-54361 Ethan Caine Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:40:26 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=10969#comment-54361 I think losing his/her status is the least of his/her problems....sad sad sad I think losing his/her status is the least of his/her problems….sad sad sad

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