Germany becomes first European country to recognise 'undetermined' sex

[Lara Mills]

Germany becomes first European country to recognise 'undetermined' sex



From 1 November babies born in Germany without clear gender-determining characteristics will be able to be registered
The German decision to recognise a third gender was based on a recommendation by the constitutional court

Germany will become the first country in Europe to join a small group of nations which recognise a third or "undetermined" sex when registering births, according to a report in the Süddeutsche Zeitung.

From 1 November, babies born in Germany without clear gender-determining physical characteristics will be able to be registered without a sex on their birth certificates, according to the report.

The change is being seen as the country's first legal acknowledgment that it is possible for a human to be neither male nor female – which could have far-reaching consequences in many legal areas.

While transsexuals – people born of one gender who feel they belong to the other and wish to be recognised as such – are already legally recognised in Germany, hermaphrodites – those with both male and female genitalia – have always been forcibly registered as one or other sex at birth.

The German decision to recognise a third gender was based on a recommendation by the constitutional court, which sees legal recognition of a person's experienced and "lived" gender as a personal human right.

People of "undetermined" sex will be allowed at any point throughout their lives to identify themselves as one or other sex and register the change on their birth certificates. Alternatively, they may also choose to keep their gender undefined.

While lawyers have rejected the idea that legislators intended to create a third legal gender with the law change, some are arguing that in practise, anyone registered as "undetermined sex" will in future have to be given their own separate defacto status in legal matters.

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[Lara Mills]

I think it is great that they are going to stop forcing hermaphrodites and the parents of them to choose a gender at birth.

What do you think?

[ladiesman217]

I think it is great that they are going to stop forcing hermaphrodites and the parents of them to choose a gender at birth.

What do you think?

It's a step in the right direction I think. But no matter what law is brought into practice, this whole area is still gonna be a grey area for many people.

[funlover12]

I think it is great that they are going to stop forcing hermaphrodites and the parents of them to choose a gender at birth.

What do you think?

why is there a problem with it in the first place though, I mean what is so wrong with registering a birth as a hermaphrodite in the first place if all it takes is common sense to realise that obviously this will create legal problems but there is no denying or wriggling out of the fact a new born is both genders so any attempt to contemp court should thrown out with a swift stfu and cop on, technically you are right, but technically communism works too!