‘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 then-current law of persons was unconstitutional because it assigned a legal gender to any citizen but did not offer options beyond 'male' and 'female' for intersex people. (In Germany, children have to be registered by law within seven days after birth, including the legal gender...