German court says people must be allowed to describe themselves as neither male nor female

Germany’s highest court has decided that people must be allowed to be entered in official records as neither male nor female, ruling that authorities should either create a third identity or scrap gender entries altogether.

Germany’s highest court has decided that people must be allowed to be entered in official records as neither male nor female, ruling that authorities should either create a third identity or scrap gender entries altogether.

The Federal Constitutional Court ruled in the case of a person who had applied to have their entry in the birth register changed from "female" to "inter/diverse" or "diverse".