Gender recognition: Difference between revisions
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* <span style="color: #f99">Red(#F99)</span> means it's not friendly at all to nonbinary people. | * <span style="color: #f99">Red(#F99)</span> means it's not friendly at all to nonbinary people. | ||
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* <span style="color: #909>Purple</span> means | * <span style="color: #909>Purple</span> means it plans to be friendly to nonbinary people. | ||
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| [[Recognition (Germany)|Germany]] | | [[Recognition (Germany)|Germany]] | ||
| style="background-color:# | | style="background-color:#F9F;" | Germany requires newborns with "ambiguous" genitals to have birth certificates with the gender marker "X", meaning no gender entry, to be changed to F or M later in life. Activists fear this will lead to even more pressure for nonconsensual surgery on intersex babies as parents are afraid of this stigmatizing non-marker.<ref>"German proposals for a “third gender” on birth certificates miss the mark". OII Australia. [2]</ref> <br>More recently, Germany has decided to allow nonbinary and intersex people proper recognition. It will allow nonbinary birth certificates by the end of 2018<ref>https://www.ilga-europe.org/resources/news/latest-news/german-constitutional-court-nov2017</ref>, but its passports still only allow [[Binary genders|binary]] options.<ref>Friederike Heine, "M, F or Blank: 'Third Gender' Official in Germany from November." August 16, 2013. Spiegel Online International (news). http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/third-gender-option-to-become-available-on-german-birth-certificates-a-916940.html</ref> | ||
| style="background-color:#ffb;" | In 2011, Germany stopped requiring transgender people to be coercively [[Sterilization|sterilized]] in order to transition.<ref>"German Federal Court Outlawing Forced Sterilisation (2011)." Transgender Europe. January 7, 2015. http://tgeu.org/german-federal-court-verdict-on-forced-sterilisation-2011/</ref> | | style="background-color:#ffb;" | In 2011, Germany stopped requiring transgender people to be coercively [[Sterilization|sterilized]] in order to transition.<ref>"German Federal Court Outlawing Forced Sterilisation (2011)." Transgender Europe. January 7, 2015. http://tgeu.org/german-federal-court-verdict-on-forced-sterilisation-2011/</ref> | ||
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| [[Recognition (Greece)|Greece]] | | [[Recognition (Greece)|Greece]] | ||
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| style="background-color:# | | style="background-color:#ffb;" | Greece allows transgender people to change their gender markers if their [[gender expression]] matches their [[gender identity]].<ref>https://www.ilga-europe.org/resources/news/latest-news/greece-gender-recognition-law-oct2017</ref> | ||
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