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Until very recently, the legal gender of a person -- both at birth and later in life -- in virtually all jurisdictions had to be recorded as either male or female; most laws simply did not allow any other option. However, there are many cases where this gender binary is unable to capture the reality of a person's gender identity. In 2013 Germany became the first Western jurisdiction in modern times to introduce legislation allowing a person's gender to be recorded as 'indeterminate' at birth and thus give them a legal gender status other than male or female. However, despite good intentions this legislation has proved problematic in many ways and is subject to pertinent criticism. Several other jurisdictions are now beginning to react to challenges to the gender binary. 'The Legal Status of Intersex Persons' provides a basis for discussions surrounding law reform in this area. It contains contributions from medical, psychological and theological perspectives as well as national legal perspectives from Germany, Malta, Australia, India, the Netherlands, Columbia, Sweden, France and the USA. It explores international human rights aspects of intersex legal recognition and features chapters on private international law and legal history.

Table of Contents:

• Legal status of intersex persons : an introduction / Jens M. Scherpe
• Malta Declaration
• Darlington Statement
• Vienna Statement
• Biology of fetal sex development / Ieuan Hughes
• Intersex in the brain : what neuroscience can tell the law about gender identity / Joe Herbert
• Gender identity and intersex conditions / Vickie Pasterski
• Evidence-based reviews of medical interventions relative to the gender status of children with intersex conditions and differences of sex development / Jameson Garland and Milton Diamond
• Intersex in the Christian tradition : personhood and embodiment / Duncan Dormor
• Four sexes, two genders : the Rabbinic move from legal to essentialist polarisation of identities / Moshe Lavee and Tali Artman Partock
• Intersex : some (legal-)historical background / Alain Wijffels
• Lessons from the legal development of the legal status of transsexual and transgender persons / Jens M. Scherpe
• Towards trans and intersex equality : conflict or complementarity? / Peter Dunne
• Australia / Claire Fenton-Glynn
• Sweden / Jameson Garland
• India / Smita Shah
• The Netherlands / Marjolein van den Brink
• France / Benjamin Moron-Puech
• Colombia (the Colombian Constitutional Court) / Ruth Rubio-Marín and Stefano Osella
• United States / Julie A. Greenberg

• Malta / Tanya Ní Mhuirthile
• Germany (the 2013 German law) / Tobias Helms
• Germany (German Inter-Ministerial Working Group) / Thomas Meyer
• Germany (gender diversity in law) / Nina Althoff
• Private international law aspects of intersex / Anatol Dutta and Walter Pintens
• Standing up for the human rights of intersex people / Dan Christian Ghattas
• 'Normalisation' of intersex bodies and 'othering' of intersex identities / Morgan Carpenter
• Intersex children and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child / Kirsten Sandberg.

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Contributors:

Scherpe, Jens M., 1971- , editor

Dutta, Anatol, 1976- , editor

Helms, Tobias, 1968- , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Legal status of intersex persons (Cambridge [England] ; Antwerp ; Chicago : Intersentia, [2018] — ISBN 9781780684758; OCLC Number 1022941628)

Subjects:

Sexual minorities — Legal status, laws, etc.

Intersex people — Legal status, laws, etc.

Intersexuality — Law and legislation

Sexual minorities

Intersex people

Intersexuality

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on: Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 16, 2019).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 535 pages) : illustrations

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

K3242.3 .L445 2018eb

ISBNs:

9781780687704 (electronic book)
1780687702 (electronic book)
9781780684758 (paperback) [Invalid]
1780684754 (paperback) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1084677969