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| style="background-color:#F9F;" | Germany requires newborns with "ambiguous" genitals to have birth certificates | | style="background-color:#F9F;" | Germany requires newborns with "ambiguous" genitals to have birth certificates without a gender marker; this can be changed to female or male later in life, if the person wishes it. 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 birth certificates with an explicit nonbinary gender marker by the end of 2018<ref>https://www.ilga-europe.org/resources/news/latest-news/german-constitutional-court-nov2017</ref> <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> German passports can have an M, F or X mark. <ref>Das noch nicht definierte Geschlecht: Eine (stille) Revolution – nicht nur im Personenstandswesen! https://www.rehm-verlag.de/__STATIC__/newsletter/pass-ausweis-melderecht/2013/self/nl-passausweismelderecht_-okt2013.pdf</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> | ||