Germany Embraces a Third Gender. What’s Next?
When it comes to the rights of intersexual persons, enlightenment has been a long time coming. Even Germany, a country that sees itself as a front-runner in building awareness for minorities, is only now coming around. A few weeks ago the Federal Constitutional Court, based in Karlsruhe, ruled that in addition to “male” and “female,” the government must recognize a third gender category, which could be identified as “intersexual” or “diverse.”
The landmark ruling injects clarity and sobriety into an often ill-informed and ideologically poisoned debate about gender in Germany. Whether it can stand outside that debate, or gets sucked into it, is a different question.… Seguir leyendo »