{"id":65393,"date":"2017-11-15T17:10:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T22:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=65393"},"modified":"2017-11-15T19:22:18","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T00:22:18","slug":"nyt-germany-must-allow-third-gender-category-court-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=65393","title":{"rendered":"(NYT) Germany Must Allow Third Gender Category, Court Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"281\" data-total-count=\"281\">Germany must create a third gender category for people who do not identify as either male or female or were born with ambiguous sexual traits, the country\u2019s constitutional court ruled on Wednesday,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de\/SharedDocs\/Pressemitteilungen\/DE\/2017\/bvg17-095.html\">finding<\/a>\u00a0that binary gender designations violated the right to privacy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"174\" data-total-count=\"455\">In 2013, Germany became the first European country to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/11\/02\/world\/europe\/germany-third-option-for-babies.html\">allow parents to register newborns<\/a>\u00a0as neither female nor male, if the child was born with characteristics of both sexes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"223\" data-total-count=\"678\">The new\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de\/SharedDocs\/Pressemitteilungen\/DE\/2017\/bvg17-095.html\">decision<\/a>, by the Federal Constitutional Court, goes further, giving lawmakers until the end of 2018 to either allow the introduction of a third gender category or dispense with gender altogether in public documents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"156\" data-total-count=\"834\">The ruling arrives as society, medicine and law increasingly recognize the ways in which gender is socially constructed and not necessarily fixed or stable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/11\/08\/world\/europe\/germany-third-gender-category-vanja.html\">Read it all<\/a> (another from the long line of should have already been posted material).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany must create a third gender category for people who do not identify as either male or female or were born with ambiguous sexual traits, the country\u2019s constitutional court ruled on Wednesday,\u00a0finding\u00a0that binary gender designations violated the right to privacy.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=65393\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,168,200,478,177,151,129,112,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-germany","category-pastoral-theology","category-politics-in-general","category-psychology","category-sexuality","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65393"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65395,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65393\/revisions\/65395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}