After Graz, the gender discussion has now also reached the little ones in Linz: parents can now choose from six genders when registering their child for kindergarten. “Four too many,” says FP councilor for Public Health Michael Raml, expressing his incomprehension.
“What is that supposed to mean?” FP city councilor Michael Raml no longer understands the world. And many parents in Linz may have been surprised. If you want to register your little bundle of joy for a place at nursery school, you now have six different options to choose from when it comes to gender.
Six options to choose from
In addition to male and female, parents can also divide their offspring into the gender groups ‘diverse’, ‘inter’ or ‘open’. “In my opinion, kindergarten should be a phase of carefreeness and not one in which children are burdened with complex social problems,” says Raml. The speaker responsible for the kindergartens, Karin Hörzing, does not understand the excitement. “This is not a Linz phenomenon or something specific to Linz. This concerns a legal obligation in the central population register.”
The Supreme Court decided in 2018
On June 15, 2018, the Constitutional Court ruled that “intersex people have the right to an individual gender identity and a registration that corresponds to their gender.”
In light of the human right to respect for private and family life, there is no obligation to “rigidly” limit official gender data to the male-female binary alternative. Rather, “the concept of gender is so general” that it also includes alternative gender identities, the Supreme Court ruled.
Source: Krone
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