Germany becomes the first European country to recognize the third gender

GAYLES.TV.- In addition to feminine and masculine, the Constitutional Court German allows in the registration of birth the inscription of people a third gender called diverse or intersexual. With this advance Germany has become the first European country to recognize the third genre. Australia already approved in 2011 a law that allowed to mark with an X the box of gender becoming the first country in the world that legislated on the third genre.

This legal revolution allows people registered with this third option to remain in it forever, or over time they can modify it in the case of preferring male or female. It is an advance focused mainly on people intersex have the right to claim as a third gender, or at least not have to be defined prematurely between the two classic categories.

An issue that shook the country in 2009 when United Nations (UN) asked Germany that respected people without defined sex since an intersex activist had said that in Germany he forced people intersex to have surgery at an early age. The new law establishes that while a person «feel deeply»Who belongs to a certain gender, you have the right to choose how you identify yourself legally.

«A not so progressive law«

The group activist Transgender Europe, Richard Köhler has stated «is not a law as progressive as we would like it to be«. Since it is questioned whether it is necessary for a person to have to mark their gender in a box. Köhler He explained that this law is limited to cases where a doctor has to make a diagnosis of intersexuality, but does not give the possibility of choosing people who do not fall within this diagnosis.

In addition, there are many points on which there is still no clarity as is the case of marriages and adoptions. It is estimated that in Germany there are approximately 80.000 intersexuales, something less than 1% of the population.

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