(FaithWire) – Germany’s Parliament has approved a third gender. Now citizens of the European country can identify as male, female or “diverse.” The decision came late Thursday night and follows a 2017 court ruling that determined the country must create a third gender option for those who identify as neither male nor female. In the ruling, the high court claimed the binary designations violate citizens’ right to privacy.
Overnight, Germany became the first country in Europe to allow parents to declare their children “diverse” from birth. Citizens are also free to change their sexual identity at any time, if they feel the identity they were assigned at birth is incorrect. However, even with the change, there is still a lot of disagreement over how people should be able to attain their sexual descriptors. The new law, as it stands right now, requires medical personnel to certify the validity of the change. READ MORE
