Alex MacFarlane
| Alex MacFarlane | |
|---|---|
| Born | Victoria, Australia |
| Known for | First known person to hold passport with X sex marker |
Alex MacFarlane is an intersex person born with XXY sex chromosomes in Victoria, Australia. Alex MacFarlane is believed to be the first holder of an indeterminate 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 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's 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.
Tony Briffa, previously acknowledged as the world's first openly intersex public official and mayor, states on Briffa's website that "my birth certificate is silent as to my sex".
Norrie May-Welby is popularly – but erroneously – often regarded as the first person in the world to obtain officially indeterminate, unspecified or "genderless" status. May-Welby became the first transsexual person in Australia to pursue a legal status of neither a man nor a woman, in 2010. That status was subjected to an appeal by the State of New South Wales. In April 2014 the Australian High Court ruled "that New South Wales laws do permit the registration of a category of sex other than male or female".
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