Alex MacFarlane is an Australian activist and an

intersex Intersex people are those born with any of several sex characteristics, including chromosome patterns, gonads, or genitals that, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, "do not fit typical binar ...

person born with XXY sex chromosomes. Born in

Victoria Victoria most commonly refers to: * Queen Victoria (1819–1901), Queen of the United Kingdom and Empress of India * Victoria (state), a state of Australia * Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, a provincial capital * Victoria, Seychelles, the capi ...

, MacFarlane is believed to be the first holder of an indeterminate birth certificate and passport.

Birth certificate and passport

MacFarlane is believed to be the first person in Australia to obtain a birth certificate recording sex as indeterminate, and the first Australian passport with an 'X' sex marker in 2003. MacFarlane was reported as receiving a passport with an 'X' sex descriptor in early 2003. This was stated by

the West Australian ''The West Australian'' is the only locally edited daily newspaper published in Perth, Western Australia. It is owned by Seven West Media (SWM), as is the state's other major newspaper, ''The Sunday Times''. It is the second-oldest continuousl ...

newspaper to be on the basis of a challenge by MacFarlane, using an indeterminate birth certificate issued by the State of Victoria. The West Australian newspaper reported in January 2003 that the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade "had decided to accommodate people whose birth certificates recorded their sex as indeterminate... Alex is also believed to be the first Australian issued with a birth certificate acknowledging a gender other than male or female. Alex says 'indeterminate – also known as intersex'". It was issued in Alex's birth State of Victoria, which unlike WA, changed its policy to allow the category. Several other Australians are known to have adopted sex non-specific or indeterminate identification documents subsequently, including Tony Briffa, and

Norrie May-Welby Norrie, also known by the pseudonym Norrie May-Welby, is a Scottish-Australian transgender person who pursued the legal status of being neither a man nor a woman, between 2010 and 2014.

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Birth certificate and passport

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