Germany is a step closer to allowing its citizens to legally identify as a third gender — instead of male or female — on official documents in which they will be designated as “diverse.” The measure was approved Wednesday in compliance with a November 2017 ruling from the Federal Constitutional Court which held that unless people had the option to select a third gender identity other than male or female, gender entries should be scrapped altogether,
The Associated Press reports. The court’s decision came about as a result of a case in which a plaintiff who has a chromosomal abnormality attempted to alter the birth register from “female” to “inter/diverse” or “diverse.” Until this week, the only option was to leave the gender designation blank. During the three-year legal battle the plaintiff presented a genetic analysis that she possessed one X chromosome but not a second X chromosome, as nearly all women have. READ MORE
