Germany is to become Europe's first country to allow babies with characteristics of both sexes to be registered as neither male nor female
The move is aimed at removing pressure on parents to make quick decisions on sex assignment surgery for newborns.
As many as one 2,000 people have characteristics of both sexes.They are known as "intersex" people because they have a mixture of male and female chromosomes or even genitalia which have characteristics of both genders
German passports, which currently list the holder's sex as M for male or F for female, will soon have a third designation, X, for intersex holders, according to the interior ministry.
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