Posted on 03/22/2011 6:42:35 PM PDT by wonkowasright
Enter the Australian Human Rights Commission with some exciting new developments. In an extraordinary document entitled Protection from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and sex and/or gender identity, the AHRC has come up with a further list of “genders” which they require us to recognize, and on whose behalf they want our federal government to pass anti-discrimination legislation. To date (by the time you read this, the AHRC's family of sexualities may have increased and multiplied) these are: transgender, trans, transsexual, intersex, androgynous, agender, cross dresser, drag king, drag queen, genderfluid, genderqueer, intergender, neutrois, pansexual, pan-gendered, third gender, third sex, sistergirl and brotherboy. (No, I don't know what “neutrois” means).
So if we add these genders to the LGBTQ list we get 23 in all, not to mention the divisions within the transgendered group. For PR purposes, however, the “gendered" community now identifies itself as LGBTQI (the "I" stands for "intersex".) Rather than abbreviating I think they should add all the other letters of the alphabet, then we would all feel protected and not discriminated against. Being Indian by birth and having married an Australian of Anglo-Celtic origin, I am all for diversity, but I am not going to commit to "neutrois" until someone tells me what it means.
(Excerpt) Read more at mercatornet.com ...
This is a formal organization not some college fraternity.
I guess the world is self destructing. It may be a meltdown. Waltz Matilda.
I can shorten that 23 down to one...........”FREAK”
“Male and female He created them.” Everything else after that is a choice/decision.
“sistergirl and brotherboy”?
What the?
Lady maybe.
They forgot shem and trans-testical...
They (the AHRC) just didn’t want anyone to feel left out.
I lived in many cities with large gay populations, but have never heard of or seen a drag king.
What about the she/it?
I can shorten that 23 down to one...........”FREAK”
But, “PERV” is one letter shorter.
;-)
You’re going to love this. I’d never heard the term sistergirl before so I googled it. As far as I can tell, it’s a transgender person from the Australian Indigenous community. In other words, race is now recognised as a legitimate reason to create another gender.
From the ‘Sistergirl Conference:’
Discussions at the First National Sistergirl Forum,
between traditional/semi-traditional and urban
sistergirls around sistergirl identity proved to be
sometimes volatile but ultimately constructive.
The discussions revealed some insecurities about
ownership of personal identities and whether some
people were claiming an identity that could rightly
be called their own without fear of offending one
or the other identified groups. All delegates agreed
that sistergirl includes two sub-groups, ‘sister’
and ‘sistergirl’. ‘Sister’ is the terminology for
an individual who may identify as gay, whilst a
‘sistergirl’ is clearly an individual who has
transgender qualities.
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