Norrie has won a victory for all people neither male nor female

By Paul Bibby
Updated April 5 2014 - 12:08pm, first published 3:00am

Twenty-five years before the High Court wrote Norrie's name indelibly into the nation's history, the tall, willowy activist was lying in a Sydney hospital bed. As doctors and nurses prepared to undertake gender reassignment surgery, their patient was almost overwhelmed with anxiety and emotion.

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