SAGE co-founder Norrie May Welby (centre, in green dress) and SAGE co-founder Tracie O’Keefe (third from left) with the legal team that helped Norrie achieve the right to have sex non-specific documentation.

From 2014: In March 2010, the NSW government in Australia issued what was believed to be the world’s first ‘Sex Not Specified’ Recognised Details Certificate in place of a birth certificate to SAGE member Norrie May-Welby.

The government appealed, but in 2014, after 13 relentless years of campaigning and bringing various court cases and appeals at state and federal levels, Norrie won the right to be legally identified as “sex non-specific” at the High Court of Australia.

Read the full judgment from the High Court of Australia

Read the full story on the Sydney Morning Herald