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...
Kategorie: Aktuell
Normangleichende Genitaloperationen an intergeschlechtlichen Kindern gehen weiter –Follow Up-Studie zur Entwicklung der OP-Zahlen erschienen
Wenn Kinder mit „uneindeutig“ erscheinenden Geschlechtsorganen auf die Welt kommen, sind diese schnellstmöglich chirurgisch an die männliche oder weibliche Norm anzupassen – so haben es Generationen von Ärzt*innen gelernt. Dass in einigen deutschen Krankenhäusern immer noch...
Referentenentwurf “Geschlechtseintrag” und Stellungnahme “Dritte Option”
Es gibt offenbar einen Referentenentwurf aus dem Innenministerium für die Neufassung des Personenstandsgesetzes, nachdem das Bundesverfassungsgericht die bisherige Regelung eines binären Geschlechtseintrages (einschließlich des “Nicht-Eintrags” von Geschlecht in bestimmten Fällen) für verfassungwidrig erklärt hatte. Seitens der...
The Last Days of Taurus – When Hermaphrodites Are Born…
Many contributions to this blog convincingly show that the Middle Ages (or, more generally, the premodern period) were quite familiar with the figure of the «hermaphrodite» as well as with a range of physiological aspects of...
New definition of ‘female’ by IAFF
Changing sex and gender is a rare event – unless, of course, you are a professional athlete. The rules who is allowed to compete in the male and female categories respectively are changing relatively quickly –...
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...
Intersex Day of Remembrance 2017
Today is the birthday of Adélaïde Herculine Barbin alias Alexina alias Camille alias Abel Barbin – celebrated as Intersex Day of Remembrance around the world. Last year, my contribution to this day was a blogpost on...
Call for contributions
For some time now, this blog has largely been defunct, and the spring break is turning into a summer break, too. This need not to last for long, especally not if you are going to help...
Ideas on Yde and Ydé: (un)gendered names in classical and medieval literature
Thinking about sex and gender in past societies invariably makes you think how we could possible know the individual sex or gender or any person who lived centuries ago. In practice, we often rely on given...
Legal situation of trans and inter in Germany
The German ministry of family affairs (BMFSFJ) has published an expert opinion on the legal situation of trans and inter in Germany today: https://www.bmfsfj.de/bmfsfj/service/publikationen/geschlechtervielfalt-im-recht/114072 The 132-page opinion surveys various spheres of the law, and has a...
