Posts Tagged ‘intersex Germany’
Germany Introduces Third Gender Designation for Non-Binary Adult Citizens!
Great news out of Germany on Intersex Solidarity Day! As reported by AP News early today, “Germany’s highest court has decided that people must be allowed to be entered in official records as neither male nor female, saying in a ruling published Wednesday that authorities should create a third identity or scrap gender entries altogether.”…
Read MoreViloria’s “Germany’s Third Gender Law: Not What Intersex People Most Need”, in The Global Herald
Please read OII-USA Director Hida Viloria’s essay “Germany’s Third Gender Law: Not What Intersex People Most Need” for the facts about the new law, and why members of OII Germany and other German intersex advocacy groups are not thrilled with it.
Read MoreViloria Interviewed on BBC World Services Radio regarding Germany’s third gender law
OII-USA Director Hida Viloria speaks about Germany’s new third gender law and why it doesn’t go far enough in attaining human rights for intersex people, on the BBC World Services’ program World Have Your Say.
Read MoreGermany’s New Third Gender Law Places Intersex Babies at Risk
[We would like to note a correction to this original post: some intersex advocates were consulted in the creation of this new law, but their concerns were not addressed by it.] Germany’s new third gender law becomes effective today, and has been hailed as a groundbreaking advancement for intersex people, but every intersex advocacy organization…
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