Topic: Germans no longer have to classify their kids as male or female
+Rapeculture — 12.8 years ago #28,147
http://rt.com/news/germany-allows-third-gender-062/
Germany has become the first European country to allow parents of babies born with no clearly-defined gender characteristics to leave the ‘male/female’ field on birth certificates blank, creating a ‘third sex’ category in the public register.
The law, passed in August, comes into force on November 1. It was prompted by results of a 2012 study by the German Ethics Council, which found the rights of intersex people weren’t protected well enough.
The legislation is meant to prevent parents from making haste decisions on controversial genital surgeries for their not-entirely-male-or-female newborns, done to make one of the two gender characteristics prevail.
"This will be the first time that the law acknowledges that there are human beings who are neither male nor female, or are both --- people who do not fit into the traditional legal categories," University of Bremen law professor Konstanze Plett said as cited by AFP.
As adults, German intersex individuals will soon be also spared from the necessity to fit in the conventional gender framework, as the current two options of entering either ‘M’ for male or ‘F’ for female in a passport gender field, will be officially supplemented by a third option: ‘X’.
Germany has become the first European country to allow parents of babies born with no clearly-defined gender characteristics to leave the ‘male/female’ field on birth certificates blank, creating a ‘third sex’ category in the public register.
The law, passed in August, comes into force on November 1. It was prompted by results of a 2012 study by the German Ethics Council, which found the rights of intersex people weren’t protected well enough.
The legislation is meant to prevent parents from making haste decisions on controversial genital surgeries for their not-entirely-male-or-female newborns, done to make one of the two gender characteristics prevail.
"This will be the first time that the law acknowledges that there are human beings who are neither male nor female, or are both --- people who do not fit into the traditional legal categories," University of Bremen law professor Konstanze Plett said as cited by AFP.
As adults, German intersex individuals will soon be also spared from the necessity to fit in the conventional gender framework, as the current two options of entering either ‘M’ for male or ‘F’ for female in a passport gender field, will be officially supplemented by a third option: ‘X’.
+The Doctor !7MHPahvoGY — 12.8 years ago, 6 minutes later[T] [B] #329,755
+On !Uvm54ORbmo — 12.8 years ago, 21 minutes later, 28 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #329,759
> will be officially supplemented by a third option: ‘X’.
not 'T'?
not 'T'?
+Red Creme !Soda7m0OQk — 12.8 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #329,771
+Anonymous E — 12.8 years ago, 3 hours later, 5 hours after the original post[T] [B] #329,831
·Red Creme !Soda7m0OQk — 12.8 years ago, 3 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[T] [B] #329,832
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