Just Who, Not What

Human nature is so complex, personalities so different, inherent values similar to a degree, it is yet no little wonder that even gender identification can be a confused and confusing issue. There are definite males and females of the species. And hermaphrodites, a confused-gender circumstance, often leading to sad decision-making. The transgendered, lesbian, gays, whose gender-wiring has been inconclusive, but leading toward same-gender preferences.

But what about all those people - and likely they represent a great number of very quiet people, happy not to bring undue attention, and with it pressure, to themselves - who are neither, nor? Individual human beings who are quite simply disinterested in gender identification because it holds no meaning for them. They are what and who they are, gender undifferentiated, simply people, individuals, human beings of another gender dimension.

Their humanity is absent of gender proclivities. Their lives fulfilled by being human beings without being endowed with what most people would claim to be essential to their being; sexual preference and gender identification. And concomitant with that, having intimate sexual relations with others. Instead they represent people just interested in getting on with their lives; unassuming and content with who they are, because they have accepted what they are not.

They are there, and they may be anomalous, but no less important for that missing link to nature's imperative to recreate themselves through passing on their genetic inheritance. Now Australian officials in Sydney have rendered a certificate for immigrants whose interest it is to have their sex change observed. A man born in Britain, who had undergone a sex change operation, but who had decided after all, to halt the alteration and recognize himself as gender-neutral.

"The concepts of man or woman don't fit me. The simplest solution is not to have any sex identification." Doctors had concluded they were unable to determine Norrie May-Welby's gender. He had no gonads, his hormonal system was atypically male or female. His mental-intellectual psyche was neutral. This comes as a shock to parents who typically think their offspring will be one or the other, male or female.

But parents, most parents, love their children. Their wish is for their children to be satisfied with life, find happiness and fulfilment in whatever they do, however they mature. "You love your children. You may try to change them when they're growing up, but after a time, there's nothing you can do but accept the way they are", this person's mother said.

And, said a spokesperson for the Gender Trust in Britain: "Many people like the idea of being genderless". In a sense, it does render people a trifle less complicated.