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Friday, November 1, 2013

Germany to Allow 'indeterminate' Gender at Birth


Germany is to become Europe's first country to allow babies with characteristics of both sexes to be registered as neither male nor female
Parents will be allowed to leave the gender blank on birth certificates, in effect creating a new categories of "indeterminate sex".
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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