Laws
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In the making: Put an end to IGM
Last updated: May, 2025 This page has been introduced with the OII Europe Good Practice Map 2021. The content of this page will be updated periodically. It will show national laws banning non-vital, non-emergency medical interventions on intersex children in Europe. It will highlight both the positive points and the obstacles towards full protection. — 2024…
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Protecting Intersex People in Europe: A toolkit for law and policy makers
We are delighted to present you with this toolkit and accompanying appendix and checklist so that we can work together to ensure the protection of all people on the basis of sex characteristics, including those most vulnerable to violations and abuses. Post updated: 23. Nov 2023 check back for more checklist translations in the future
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New draft bill in Germany fails to protect intersex people
On 15 August 2018, a new draft bill to adjust legal sex registration of intersex persons was made public in Germany. Below you can read OII Europe response to this problematic bill. Response of OII Europe to the draft law amending sex registration by the German Federal Ministry of the Interior, for Building and Community…
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Gender Identity, Gender Expression and Sex Characteristics Act (Malta 2015)
By making sex assignment treatment and/or surgical intervention on the sex characteristics of a minor unlawful, until the person can provide informed consent Malta has taken vital steps to ensure that the individual’s primary rights to self- determination, bodily integrity and personal dignity are respected. Right to bodily integrity and physical autonomy. 14. (1) It…
