[Vision2020] Newborns Now Registered As Third Sex

[Janesta]

There is a medical term for this condition. Wonder why they didn't use it?


On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> Instead of registering babies born with traits of both sexes as "neither
> male nor female", shouldn't they register them as "both male and female"?
> Makes no sense to me otherwise.
>
> Paul
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> On 11/02/2013 07:29 PM, Tom Hansen wrote:
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> Courtesy of KHQ News at:
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>  http://www.khq.com/story/23861405/newborns-now-registered-as-third-sex
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>  Newborns Now Registered As Third Sex
> BERLIN (AP) - A new law has gone into effect allowing German parents to
> register their newborn babies as neither male nor female if they were born
> with traits of both sexes.
>
> The German Parliament in January approved the law that went into effect
> Friday. The German Ethics Council, an advisory group, had urged the change
> to take the pressure off parents to make a hasty decision and possibly
> commit to surgery immediately after birth, the dpa news agency reported.
>
> The council had argued, among other things, that many people born with
> both sex characteristics who were operated on as children say they wouldn't
> have consented to the surgery.
>
> Parents had previously been required by law to register their children's
> name and gender within one week with authorities
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>  Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
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