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Intersexuality in Germany. Scholarly ans Societal Debate around the Law Amendment in 2012-2013
Misařová, Adéla ; Kučera, Rudolf (advisor) ; Emler, David (referee)
Germany was the first country in Europe that took an important step to helping intersex people. Since the 1st of November 2013 the intersex new-born have been enacting an opportunity to withhold information about the gender in its personal documents. Germany is now among the few countries in the world that gave intersexed people the opportunity to stay for a lifetime, if they so desire, without a gender. Intersex people are classified as individuals who are born with ambiguous sex characteristics (such as genitalia, chromosomes and hormones). Therefore they can't fall into either of the male or the female sex category. Amendment to the german Civil Code, which allowed marking gender of intersex children in its personal documents with the letter "X", was preceded by intense debate in the field of professional, political and social. Partial discussions of this topic took place in Germany since the 90s and were carried out thanks to the interest groups of intersex people. The most important stimulus for the amendment to civil code was the opinion of the German Council for Ethics from February 2012. The loudest argument in discussions appeared, pointed in particular to the need to ban dangerous surgeries on intersex children, which caused them health problems in adulthood. Other reason for this...
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