The Legal Status of Intersex Persons

Name: The Legal Status of Intersex Persons
Author: Jens Scherpe

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Paperback, 300 blz. | Engels

Intersentia | 1e druk, 2018

ISBN13: 9781780684758

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Hoofdrubriek : Juridisch

Juridisch : Personen- en familierecht

Jongbloed : Personen- en familierecht - Algemeen

Intersentia 1e druk, 2018 9781780684758

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Until very recently, the legal gender of a person – both at birth and later in life - in virtually all jurisdictions had to be recorded as either male or female; most laws simply did not allow any other option. However, there are many cases where this gender binary is unable to capture the reality of a person’s gender identity.

In 2013 Germany became the first Western jurisdiction in modern times to introduce legislation allowing a person’s gender to be recorded as ‘indeterminate’ at birth and thus give them a legal gender status other than male or female. However, despite good intentions this legislation has proved problematic in many ways and is subject to pertinent criticism. Several other jurisdictions are now beginning to react to challenges to the gender binary.

The Legal Status of Intersex Persons provides a basis for discussions surrounding law reform in this area. It contains contributions from medical, psychological and theological perspectives as well as national legal perspectives from Germany, Australia, India, the Netherlands, Columbia, Sweden, France and the USA. It explores international human rights aspects of intersex legal recognition and features chapters on private international law and legal history.

Specificaties

ISBN13:9781780684758

Taal:Engels

Bindwijze:paperback

Aantal pagina's:300

Uitgever:Intersentia

Druk:1

Verschijningsdatum:12-9-2018

Hoofdrubriek:Personen- en familierecht

Jongbloed:Personen- en familierecht - Algemeen

Inhoudsopgave

The Legal Status of Intersex Persons: An Introduction (p. 1)
Malta Declaration - Statement of the Third International Intersex Forum of 1 December 2013 (p. 7)
Darlington Statement: Joint Consensus Statement from the Intersex Community Retreat in Darlington, March 2017 (p. 11)
Vienna Statement (Statement of the First European Intersex Community Event, Vienna, 30th - 31st of March 2017) (p. 19)

Medicine and Psychology
Biology of Fetal Sex Development (p. 23)
Intersex in the Brain: What Neuroscience can Tell the Law about Gender Identity (p. 45)
Gender Identity and Intersex Conditions (p. 65)
Evidence-Based Reviews of Medical Interventions Relative to the Gender Status of Children with Intersex Conditions and Differences of Sex Development (p. 81)

Theology and Legal History
Intersex in the Christian Tradition: Personhood and Embodiment (p. 103)
Four Sexes, Two Genders: The Rabbinic Move from Legal to Essentialist Polarisation of Identities (p. 165)
Intersex: Some (Legal-)Historical Background (p. 181)

Transgender, Transsexuality and Intersex
Lessons from the Legal Development of the Legal Status of Transsexual and Transgender Persons (p. 201)
Towards Trans and Intersex Equality: Conflict or Complementarity? (p. 217)

National Legal Developments
The Legal Status of Intersex Persons in Australia (p. 241)
The Legal Status of Intersex Persons in Sweden (p. 255)
The Legal Status of Intersex Persons in India (p. 281)
The Legal Status of Intersex Persons in the Netherlands (p. 293)
The Legal Status of Intersex Persons in France (p. 305)
Between Rights and Pragmatism: Intersexuality Before the Colombian Constitutional Court (p. 319)
The Legal Status of Intersex Persons in the United States (p. 339)
The Legal Status of Intersex Persons in Malta (p. 357)
The 2013 German Law: Analysis and Criticism (p. 369)
The German Inter-Ministerial Working Group on Inter- and Transsexuality (p. 383)
Gender Diversity in Law: The German Perspective (p. 393)

Private International Law Aspects of Intersex
Private International Law Aspects of Intersex (p. 413)

Intersex and Human Rights
Standing Up for the Human Rights of Intersex People (p. 427)
The 'Normalisation' of Intersex Bodies and 'Othering' of Intersex Identities (p. 445)
Intersex Children and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (p. 515)