“Doctors still do not acknowledge that I’m intersex”
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Maya Posch has fought for almost a decade to be recognised as intersex. She tells Channel 4 News why Germany’s change of law is a seminal moment.
Maya Posch has fought for nearly a decade to be recognised in The Netherlands as an intersex person. In an interview with Channel 4 News, she explains the difficulties she has encountered and why she plans to move to Germany.
“Gender is a personal thing. With transgenders we allow people to change sex. So why the hell should we force gender upon an infant? It doesn’t make sense,” she says.
Each year, one in every 2,000 babies – or 0.05 per cent of the world’s population – is born with ambiguous sex organs. Often that means being automatically enrolled into a life that will only be understood years later.
But with choices already made – either by anxious parents or the result of over-eager medical judgments - the consequences can be emotionally devastating.
Now Germany has become the first European country to allow new-born babies to be reg...
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