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In 2000, Sally secured the first known mention of intersex in national law, with the inclusion of "intersex" within the definition of "sex" in the anti-discrimination law of the
Republic of South Africa. Since then, she helped to draft legislation on the Alteration of Sex Descriptors, and the
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in Oxford, England, in 1981. She was ordained a deacon in "around 1985" and a priest in 1987, and then taught moral theology and ethics at
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