Third gender law (Germany)

[1] The law, codified in § 45b and § 22 PStG (German: Personenstandsgesetz), laid down an administrative procedure for assigning a diverse gender.

A bill to ease the process for transgender, intersex and non-binary non-intersex people, the Self-Determination Act, was passed on April 12, 2024, and took effect in November 2024.

The court decided that it was unconstitutional to refuse a third positive gender option for people "not clearly identifiable" as female or male,⁣[5][6] citing Articles 1, 2, and 3 of the German constitution.

[10] In 2021, an online form created to book covid vaccination appointments around Cologne and Dusseldorf[12] mistakenly offered users to declare their gender as German: Taucher, a literal translation of the English "divers" as in "people who dive".

The booking form was made by the regional public doctors' association German: Kassenärztliche Vereinigung Nordrhein.