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Studia Iuridica

Intersex newborns and people with nonbinary gender identity: The beginning of legal recognition

2021, 90, No. 1

Renata Ziemińska

0000-0002-4403-0987

University of Szczecin

DOI

10.31338/2544-3135.si.2022-90.14

Publication date

27.06.2022

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open access

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CC BY 4.0 Int.

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Law

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law

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English

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Abstract

Intersex newborns cannot be qualified as male or female at the level of their biological traits. People with nonbinary gender identity are those who do not identify as a man or a woman (at the level of gender identity). In most countries both groups, intersex people and nonbinary people, are in legal limbo. The existence of congenital eunuchs/ hermaphrodites is confirmed in the Bible. Recently, a process has begun to introduce third sex/gender options in documents. I discuss the legal recognition in Germany, where since 2019 there have been used three sex/gender categories: male, female, and diverse (divers). Finally, I present a nonbinary and multilayered conceptualization of sex/gender that goes beyond the system of male/female categorization. It includes a third category in addition to male/female and allows us to describe the clash of layers.

Keywords:

intersex newborns,nonbinary gender identity,nonbinary sex characteristics,third gender category,nowonarodki interpłciowe,niebinarna tożsamość płciowa,niebinarne cechy płciowe,trzecia kategoria płciowa

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