On Being Dragged into #ReceptioGate
While I am not on Twitter or Mastodon myself, several friends and colleagues have kindly informed me that my name was mentioned in context of #ReceptioGate and that my work seems to have been plagiarised. This...
Autor: Christof Rolker
‘All humans are male, female, or hermaphrodite’ (Rolandus Passagerii)
In the past decade or so, a number of countries have changed their laws and statutes concerning the legal status of intersex people. In Germany, the German Federal Constitutional Court ruled in autumn 2017 that the...
Gregory of Nyssa on sex, gender and hermaphrodites (Greek and English)
Medieval and, to a lesser extent, early modern theologians surpringly often ‘discussed’ the possibility the Adam was created hermaphrodite. I say ‘discussed’ as the position was pretty much a straw man – there is very little...
German Constitutional Court on intersex and legal gender
Yesterday’s publication of a supreme court ruling of the German Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) on intersex and legal gender has quickly made it to the press, both nationally and internationally. Perhaps unavoidably, many press releases written...
Bundesverfassungsgericht: Binärer Geschlechtseintrag verfassungswidrig
Heute – immer noch am Geburtstag von Adélaïde Herculine alias Alexina alias Camille alias Abel Barbin! – wurde bekannt, dass das Bundesverfassungsgericht am 10. Oktober diesen Jahres zu dem Urteil gekommen ist, dass die aktuelle Regelung...
“Diverse Identität – Theologische Annäherungen an das Phänomen Intersexualität” (Tagung)
Die Evangelische Akademie Loccum organisiert eine Tagung in Kooperation mit dem Studienzentrum der EKD für Genderfragen zum Thema “Diverse Identität – Theologische Annäherungen an das Phänomen Intersexualität”, das vom 6. bis 7. Dezember 2017 in Loccum stattfinden wird....
Intersex Awareness Day 2017
Compared to last year, the blogosphere was slightly less brimming with activity around the 2017 Intersex Awareness Day – or that was my impression as an admittedly lazy blogger recently. Then again, 2016 was special for...
