
Wherever I go, one of the first things I do is check the local papers, then I ask a lot of questions. Especially when in another country. Did you know that we are news poor in the United States? In our country news is mostly for entertainment (Nightly News) or to front commercials (CNN/Fox News). Once you're in another country, real news is an eye-popper and readily available!
While in Istanbul, Turkey, last week, I read in the Turkish Daily News (an English language paper) an article datelined Berlin, Germany. It was titled "Germany allows third baby gender options." As of November 1, Germany became the first nation in the world to allow babies born with characteristics of both sexes to be registered as neither male nor female. Parents will now be allowed to leave the field for gender blank on birth certificates. . . thereby creating a third gender category called "indeterminate sex" in the public registry. No longer will parents have to choose a gender for babies born as Hermaphrodites (having both genitalia), nor risk surgery. German passports, which currently bear an "M" for male or "F" for female, will soon be allowed to have an "X" in the gender field. Lawmakers have yet to decide how this change will impact marriage and partnership laws.
2009 statistics for Hermaphrodite births showed one out of every hundred in Germany; one out of every thousand in the U.S. Why so many in Germany I do not know. One can speculate, but no reasonable explanation has yet to be offered. I talk a lot about birth issues with our new kids in my book Children of the Fifth World. One of the charges this generational jump in human evolution has is to change how society views sex. As a whole, the new kids are very open to gender mixing, bi-sexuality, transgender issues, single gender couples, marriages, adoptions. And they are much more adventurous when it comes to oral, anal, and vaginal sex acts. For this reason, parent/child discussions are a must. (Sexually transmitted diseases and throat and mouth cancers are now at an all-time high with kids and young adults, as well as sexual slavery.) Miley Cyrus, with her almost-nude dance depicting sexual intercourse during a TV awards show, single handedly turned "pop culture" into "porn culture." Look for gender/sex issues to increase. What happened in Germany could become a global shift in the legal status of recognizing more than two genders.
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