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KARLSRUHE, Germany, January 2, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Germany’s top court has mandated legal recognition of a “third gender” from birth.
Limiting identity registration to natural, binary gender labels is discriminatory toward individuals who do not fall under the categories of “male” or “female,” the Federal Constitutional Court ruled.
The ruling puts Germany on a short list of countries, including Australia, India, New Zealand and Nepal, which recognize “intersex” identity on official documents. It’s the first European country to do so.
Germany’s legislators must pass a new regulation that offers the third gender option of “intersex,” according to the ruling handed down late last year. They have until the end of this year to do so.
The case was brought by an “intersex” German registered at birth as female, Fox News reported.
The petitioner, known as “Vanja” in court documents, appears and lives as a female but does not identify with either gender because of a chromosomal anomaly.
The top court ruled in Vanja’s favor after lower courts denied Vanja’s request to include “inter” and “various” as identifiers at birth.
German law previously only recognized male and female as possible options for birth registration of gender.
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