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On Friday, Nov. 1, Germany will become the first country in the world to allow parents to leave the gender box blank on their child's birth certificate. As reported in August, the move is an effort

Starting next month, new parents in Germany will no longer be required to designate their newborn children as either male or female.

In an effort to be more inclusive of intersex individuals, Germany will allow parents to leave the gender box blank on their baby’s birth certificate if they so choose. The law takes effect on November 1.

With babies reportedly born without clearly determinable genitalia at a rate of 1 in every 1,500 – and many intersex individuals not exhibiting characteristics until later in life – the legislation seeks “to take the pressure off parents to commit themselves to a gender immediately after birth.”

“This will be the first time that the law acknowledges that there are human beings who are neither male nor female, or are both,” stated University of Bremen law professor Konstanze Plett. “People who do not fit into the traditional legal categories… We will have fellow human beings with no sex registered. They can’t be forced into either one of the traditional sexes in these other contexts.”

Earlier this year, the United Nations condemned “normalization” surgery, citing research that surgeries aiming to create an either anatomically male or female bodyfor intersex infants often leads to more harm than help.

The German law reportedly states that if a child “cannot be assigned to the female nor the male gender,” their status “shall be entered without such information in the register of births.”

Long live blank gender boxes!

thatdiabolicalfeminist

One step closer to leaving them all blank until kids can tell us what gender they are! (Or even, idk, not making gender a part of legal documents)

sandandglass

Russell Howard’s Good News s10e06

atx-nerd-mom

I guarantee you, the woman has packed all her stuff, plus her kids’ stuff, plus all the shit her husband forgot to pack. Five minutes into their vacation, dude will be cursing because he forgot something important, and his wife will be like, “Here it is. I thought you’d need it, so I packed it, along with all of your underwear, socks, swimsuit, toothbrush, and deodorant because apparently you confused our family trip to Disney World with an overnight couple’s stay at a nudist colony. You’re welcome.”

Laugh it up, assholes. Without us, you’d be wearing the same underwear three days straight, including poolside.

andromedafalls

Fucking right

cosmicrystalwitch

Who tf uses a Walmart bag for a 3 day vacation honestly

thatdiabolicalfeminist

You Are Not My Responsibility

Can we talk some more about how guilt tripping someone for not being interested in you is a really shitty thing to do? Look, I’m sorry you’re lonely or depressed or whatever. Those are bad things and having to deal with them isn’t fun. But I am not responsible. It is not my job to sacrifice my autonomy to make you feel better. Your attraction to me does not make your well-being my responsibility. And to use your unhappiness as a tool to coerce me into a relationship or a sexual situation that I’m not comfortable with makes you a bad person.

Anybody who’s had to put up with this kind of emotional manipulation - you deserved better. You always deserve better. And you aren’t wrong to say no.

kill-your-idles

“Your attraction to me does not make your well-being my responsibility.” - brilliant and 100% accurate

davidwynne

I’ve reblogged this before, but it’s come back up in my notes and it occurs to me that there’s a thing worth adding to this - with the caveat that I am absolutely not suggesting it’s AS serious as the main point - which is that this also applies to platonic friendship. Of course being there for each other is a hugely important part of friendship, but so is letting people have their own space and time, understanding that they may not enjoy the same things as you, and understanding that they simply may not have as much free time as you.

I’ve had multiple situations this year when I’ve felt like I actually needed to provide physical proof that I wasn’t out cavorting elsewhere when saying no to social invites. Which, frankly, is fucked up. If I don’t want to do what you’re doing, I should be able to just say no.

But even then, you know what? It’s okay for them to sometimes choose to spend time with other people instead. Social engagements are not a “first come, first served” deal. If I have an opportunity to spend time with a friend I’ve not laid eyes on in a year and I’ve already seen you twice in the last six months, I AM going to cancel on you, no matter how long our arrangement has stood. And if I just haven’t had an evening alone with my partner in a week, similarly, I’m sorry, but I’m staying home. Actually, you know what? I’m not sorry. Fuck off if you think I should be.

…well that escalated quickly.

Like I say, this obviously isn’t as serious as the point in the main post, but I think it’s a thing a few people REALLY need to learn to understand.

cacavape

the whole “why do girls travel in packs when they go to the bathroom lol” joke gets a lot less funny when you realize that it’s because we’ve had it etched and engraved into our minds since our parents first started dropping us off at the movies or at the mall that we absolutely always need to stick together with our girlfriends no matter what, even when we go to the bathroom, because the bigger the group we were in, the smaller the chances were of us being harassed or abducted by creepy older men in public.

sepulchritude

there’s no such thing as a stupid reason not to kill yourself.

your school sells cookies on thursdays? your favorite band is coming out with a new album? you’re still saving up for that tattoo? there’s still five sodas in your fridge and it’d be a shame to let them go to waste? you want to see the season finale of that show you love? keep living.

your reasons don’t have to be big, if they mean anything to you then they’re good reasons.

led-sbian

Yes! Just make something to look forward to

collectivized-apiary-deactivate

Okay but this is honestly true.

One of the closest times I came to committing suicide was when I was home alone for the weekend a few years ago. The reason I didn’t?

No one else was there to feed the cat until Monday.

That’s it. That’s all that saved me.

the44thpilot

See, this is such good advice, because it can put you in the frame of mind that you need to be in to combat depression. Even things that seem little, like, “My plant will die if I don’t water it,” or “I’m the only one that takes out the trash, anyways” are examples of how you’re needed and valuable, even appreciated.

There are people out there that need you and love you. Stay alive friend, because it is so worth it.

hiddlesy

oriharaizaya13

@ikatsfromspace

friend: are u a big spoon or a little spoon?

me: im a knife

at family dinners

me: talk less, smile more

me: don't let them know what you're against or what you're for

mcdyke-deactivated20171112

being a female means needing to see 10 different doctors to get a proper diagnosis because they always think you’re exaggerating and/or lying

leftiesneedrights

define proper diagnosis. I mean, does that just mean the diagnosis you want?

mcdyke-deactivated20171112

no :) it means going to 10 different doctors who disbelieved your symptoms until the 11th found cysts on your ovaries :) which may mean infertility :) sit on a cactus :)

owl-priestess-deactivated201602

or being told not being able to walk up a flight of stairs without fainting/not being able to stay awake for more than 5 hours was ‘anxiety’ until finally the 5th doctor you saw diagnosed ur CFS/ME

kristen-the-rageful-deactivated

It’s not getting proper treatment for over a decade because people think another female only disease isn’t real. And your insurance still does not cover your prescription even though it’s the only one you can take.

tehbewilderness

Dismissing symptoms for three years before finally sending you to a specialist and suddenly everything is happening very very fast because it is so obviously cancer.

pueppiesblog

or being told for ten years that your constant stomaches are probably caused by weird eating habits, overweight or not enough work out and suddenly your gall bladder gets removed in an emergency surgery - including about 10 gall stones.

hurricaneclouds

i support girls anger. i support girls who yell. i support girls who get called bitches and cunts at parties because they’ll swear at guys who won’t leave them alone. i support girls who don’t believe in second chances and cut off people who hurt them. i support girls who say no the first time and flip you off if you ask them again. i support girls who will never allow themselves to be pushovers and constantly get shit for it. you’re fucking incredible.

queefybuttcheeks

YO FUCK THANKSGIVING...but imma still eat tho...imma still eat tho

asian

Baby boomers be like “I went to college without my parent’s help so you can do the same” like no I can’t do it after you fisted the economy you fucking walnut

sandandglass

Last Week Tonight s02e35

lilhippiedreamer

10 Reasons to Hate Donald Trump

1. His ex wife admitted that he forced her into sexual situations.

2. He wants to spend billions of dollars of our already dwindling budget to build a wall to stop Mexicans from coming into the country.

3. When asked hard hitting and relevant questions by a female he avoided them and went on to blame it on her period.

4. He gave out a senators private number out of spite.

5. If he can’t fix his hair how can we expect him to fix our economy?

6. He accused all immigrants of being rapists.

7. He believes immigrants stealing jobs is actually a thing.

8. He believes that sexual assault is to be expected when men and women are put together.

9. He’s disgusted by breast feeding.

10. He’s overall just a sexist, racist bully who uses his money in order to push people around.

punkrock-astrology

I’m not even american but oh my god don’t let this scumbag be your fucking president

sagethedinosaur

11. He wants to shut down all mosques, though he knows that it may be illegal

12. He wants to make all Muslims wear a badge and carry an ID that says that they’re Muslim

Remind you of anything?

borenii-deactivated20160609

Reblogging again for that^

polkadot-cookie

13. He said that autistic children just need to be properly disciplined and that people suffering through depression and PTSD are acting as though they’re the first generation to struggle with these issues.

electricocelot

14. He said a black protester “should have been roughed up” because he was being “obnoxious” at his rally and calls his supporters “passionate” for beating up a homeless Mexican man.