This is big news from the BBC:
Australian judges have ruled that people do not have to be registered as a man or a woman on the register of births, deaths and marriages.
The New South Wales Court of Appeal overturned an earlier decision that a person’s sex could not be listed as “non-specific” under Australian law.
The appeal was brought by a 50-year-old activist from Sydney called Norrie, who identifies as being gender neutral.
An officially recognized “other” option from the male-female binary is a great first step toward recognizing that gender is a much more complicated issue than slapping a dress on a stick figure and calling the matter settled. Good on Australia for taking that step.