Insane Leftist Courts in Germany Legalize Brand New “Mixed∎ Gender
Vesti at 10 and we're continuing with Germany. A new official gender, "mixed" or "other." The German Constitutional Court is allowing citizens to re-register themselves. The topic of sexual self-determination is not new for Europe. Sweden was ahead of everyone: in 2010, as an experiment, in kindergartens the concepts of "girl" and "boy" were abolished. The children are called by name, or with a special made-up word: "hen" which can be translated as "it." Toys without gender characteristics were used.
American feminist, Judith Butler, had the idea of an undefined gender. Butler argued that gender is a forced social construct from social pressure. According to her, it's necessary to refuse to belong to either gender. But let's get back to Germany, our own correspondent Sergey Korovkin, is live with us from Berlin.
- Hello Sergey, what do we have now? "The queen gave birth to neither a daughter nor a son?"
- Perhaps yes, but only until December 2018. Because by then, the German Parliament will need to find and determine this 3rd gender, and name it. Because according to today's decision of the Constitutional Court because there's no name for this gender, the decision itself says that only 2 lines or two options in official documents for gender, male and female, is discrimination against those who can't determine their gender, and there's many of them. Therefore, in the decision of the Constitutional Court it's written that before December 2018 you need to remove from official documents the two genders, or, what's more likely, what Bundestag is likely to do, the third option will receive a definite name.
So in 2018, we can expect entertaining debates in the German Parliament about what this third gender can be called. The overall reaction in the German society is relatively calm, but I must say that in 2013 a decision was passed that if the parents are having difficulty deciding the gender of their child, or don't want to do so, they don't have to put the gender into the birth certificate, and when the child grows up they will be able to put down what they decide is correct.
The people who don't consider themselves of either gender, neither male nor female, but 3rd gender, they welcomed the decision, but many of them think that the right thing to do is to get rid of the gender selection option.
An interesting moment came, when a journalist referring to one of those activists for a 3rd gender, asked how he should refer to them? And she, or he, in this case, said that you should refer to them by first and last names. And there lies the problem for the German society, because you and I, referring to unfamiliar people, or in official situations use first name and patronymic, and the Germans use last name, but before that tell men "Herr" and women "Frau."
And if you don't do this, and only use the last name, it will be very impolite. No one knows how to deal with this, it would be the same if, for example, after finishing this story and letting you speak, Alexey, addressed you as "Kazakov," it's rude, no?
- Yes, I absolutely agree, Sergey Korovkin, told us about the "others."