Germany: Safeguarding the rights of intersex people

[Butterfly]

Germany: Safeguarding the rights of intersex people
Bird Of Paradox
03 June, 2011


http://www.birdofparadox.net/blog/?p=10046


Members of the German Bundestag and the Alliance 90/The Greens parliamentary group have tabled a potentially groundbreaking and far-reaching Motion to safeguard the rights of intersex people in three key areas: legal recognition, medical/surgical treatment and social/cultural attitudes.

[Lisbeth]

This puts me in mind of Rammstein's song Zwitter. The title means "intersexed" (literally hermaphrodite). It suggests how people in Germany treat the intersexed. There is a line in the song that says, "I'm not offended when someone tells me to go f**k myself."