It’s Trans Awareness Week! This year, we’d like to share with you the stories of trans and gender diverse icons we find inspiring, stories of resistance, resilience, and dreams. On this first day of the Trans Week of Awareness, we’d like to introduce Norrie; a Scottish-Australian trailblazer. Born in Scotland, Norrie moved to Australia in the 1990s.Norrie is an author, activist and political cartoonist who became the first trans person in the world to have their sex legally recorded as neither male nor female. They first attempted to have this registered in 2010, but NSW Births Deaths and Marriages rescinded the application. After a four-year appeal battle, propelled by Norrie’s ‘effective amateur lawyering’, the High Court of Australia ruled in their favour, and Norrie became the first person to legally register their sex as ‘not specific’. They can now be found riding around Sydney’s Inner West on a bicycle that trails bubbles. Image credits: Jack London Text adapted from TransHub’s Trans Culture Gallery & Noah Riseman’s report on NSW trans history. Want to know more about trans history? Head to the link to discover our Trans Culture Gallery, and Noah Riseman’s book, ‘Transgender Australia’: ➡ https://lnkd.in/gm_RCtSk
