%0 eBook %M Solr-EB001891454 %E Scherpe, Jens M. %E Dutta, Anatol %E Helms, Tobias %I Intersentia %D 2018 %C Cambridge %G English %@ 9781780687704 %T The legal status of intersex persons %U https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781780687704/type/BOOK %X The Legal Status of Intersex Persons provides a basis for discussion regarding all legal aspects concerning persons born with sex characteristics that do not belong strictly to male or female categories, or that belong to both at the same time. It contains contributions from medical, psychological and theological perspectives, as well as national legal perspectives from Germany, Australia, India, the Netherlands, Columbia, Sweden, France and the USA. It explores international human rights aspects of intersex legal recognition and also features chapters on private international law and legal history. The book is a timely one. Until very recently, the legal gender of a person - both at birth and later in life - in virtually all jurisdictions had to be recorded as either male or female; the laws simply did not allow any other option, and, in many cases, changing the recorded gender was difficult or impossible.