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A
court in Limburg has ruled that an adult who feels neither male or female can
be issued a new birth certificate stating that they are of ‘no determined sex’.
The case was brought by a person born in 1961 who was registered as male by
their parents because that was ‘easier for the child’. The plaintiff, who did
not feel male, had that changed to ‘female’ in 2001.
Later the person went to
court again to have ‘female’ removed and replaced by ‘not determined’. The
Limburg family court in Roermond has now granted that request, paving the way
for a formal change in legislation.
Since 1993, it has been possible to state
on a birth certificate in the Netherlands that the sex of the baby cannot be
determined, but until now, that could not be applied retroactively.
In 2007,
the Dutch supreme court rejected a similar application from a person who wished
to have a gender neutral birth certificate.
However, the Limburg court said
that social and legal developments since then have cleared the way for a ‘third
gender’ on birth documents. It pointed to, for example, the fact that Dutch
railway firm NS has begun addressing travellers as ‘passengers’ rather than
‘ladies and gentlemen’, and by noting the rise in gender neutral toilets.
The
court ruled that not being able to describe someone as ‘of undetermined gender’
conflicted with their right to a private life, self determination and autonomy.
If the person concerned feels neither male nor female, they should be able to
be registered as such, the court said in its judgement.
Revolutionary
Broadcaster RTL carried an interview with the person who brought the case. ‘It
is a revolutionary verdict,’ Leonne told the broadcaster.
‘The court has stuck
its neck out and that is big news. I am very happy, not only for myself. I have
spoken to thousands of transsexuals in my job as a psychotherapist and I did it
for them, a little bit, as well.’
‘I am not Sylvester Stallone and I am not
Pamela Anderson. I am exactly in the middle. I am a typical example of a pure
hermaphrodite,’ Leonne told RTL.
It isn't confusion at all. It's absolutely normal, yet society often will see it as abnormal. I'm sitting here telling you you've all been through it. All of you. That's what old souls do. It's part of the system. …”
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"The Akashic Circle" – Jul 17, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: Religion, The Humanization of God, Benevolent Design, DNA, Akashic Circle, (Old) Souls, Gaia, Indigenous People, Talents, Reincarnation, Genders, Gender Switches, In “between” Gender Change, Gender Confusion, Shift of Human Consciousness, Global Unity,..... etc.) - (Text version)
“… Gender Switching
Old souls, let me tell you something. If you are old enough, and many of you are, you have been everything. Do you hear me? All of you. You have been both genders. All of you have been what I will call between genders, and that means that all of you have had gender switches. Do you know what happens when it's time for you to switch a gender? We have discussed it before. You'll have dozens of lifetimes as the same gender. You're used to it. It's comfortable. You cannot conceive of being anything else, yet now it's time to change. It takes approximately three lifetimes for you to get used to it, and in those three lifetimes, you will have what I call "gender confusion."
Old souls, let me tell you something. If you are old enough, and many of you are, you have been everything. Do you hear me? All of you. You have been both genders. All of you have been what I will call between genders, and that means that all of you have had gender switches. Do you know what happens when it's time for you to switch a gender? We have discussed it before. You'll have dozens of lifetimes as the same gender. You're used to it. It's comfortable. You cannot conceive of being anything else, yet now it's time to change. It takes approximately three lifetimes for you to get used to it, and in those three lifetimes, you will have what I call "gender confusion."
It isn't confusion at all. It's absolutely normal, yet society often will see it as abnormal. I'm sitting here telling you you've all been through it. All of you. That's what old souls do. It's part of the system. …”
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