What is a diverse person?

What is a diverse person?

In addition to the abbreviations for male and female, there is the “d” for “diverse”. Divers? This means people who were born with biological sex characteristics that are neither male nor female according to the prevailing norm.

What are intersex people?

Inter * persons are people who, with regard to their gender, cannot be clearly assigned to one of the medical “norm categories” of either a “male” or a “female” body.

How many intersex people are there?

In the specialist literature, the frequency of ambiguous genitals at birth is estimated at around 1:45, others estimate the number of intersex people in Germany to be around 0.2% of the population or 0.007% of newborns.

What is the difference between diverse and indefinite?

January 2020. January 2020 it will also be possible to specify an indeterminate gender or a third gender. As in the birth register, the indeterminate gender is defined using the indicator “X = indefinite” and the third gender via the indicator “D = diverse”.

What does M w D mean in job advertisements?

The “d” in (m / f / d) stands for “diverse” and means a third gender. This should also explicitly address intersex people in job advertisements.