(Independent) Dutch court rules third gender should be recognised

A court in the Netherlands has said a third gender should be enshrined in law in a ground-breaking ruling for people who do not identify as either male or female.

The Limburg District Court in the city of Roermond decided an unnamed applicant could be recorded on their birth register as “gender undetermined”.

Until now, Dutch citizens have had to be registered as either a man or woman.

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Posted in Anthropology, Law & Legal Issues, Sexuality, The Netherlands