Male Or female? Law Approves Third Gender

The third gender option that allows parents not to determine their child’s gender as male or female at birth but to let the individual decide whether he or she wants to be considered male, female, or neither one of the two later in life is a new law that will be available in Germany at the beginning of November.
Germany will become the first European country to recognize indeterminate sex by allowing babies born with no clear gender-determining anatomy to be put on the birth register without a "male" or "female" classification.
The third gender option applies to babies who are born with ambiguous genitalia. The law seeks to protect babies from gender-assignment surgery, which has been the standard treatment for babies born without distinguishing genitalia.
"If a child cannot be designated male or female, then they should be entered on the birth register without such a status," the new law states.