“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 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.’ …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.
“The cabinet’s move will require approval by the German Parliament.
Yet some think the change does not go far enough.
“Why should you produce a doctor’s certificate to change your civil status?” asked opposition Green Party lawmakers Sven Lehmann and Monika Lazar in a joint statement. “That must be a self-determined decision that is open to all.
“Chromosomal abnormalities along with other intersex conditions and transgender identities — when someone declares he or she is the opposite sex — are not the same though they are routinely conflated in political discourse over gender issues.
“In June, the Constitutional Court of Austria, Germany’s southern neighbor, ruled that authorities must allow citizens to be entered in official records as something other than male or female, if they so desire.”
In parts of Canada and in a handful of U.S. states, this third gender designation has sometimes appeared as ‘X’ nonbinary on legal documents such as birth certificates and driver’s licenses for persons who identify as transgender or nonbinary.
“Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot.” Luke 17:28.