Helmut Melzer
Now it's finally time for Alex Jürgen: The first birth certificate and the first passport with a third gender entry have now been received. Alex Jürgen is the first person to legally fight for the gender entry "divers" or "X" - a third gender, if you will.
In 2016 Alex Jürgen applied for a third gender entry at the registry office. The registration of the gender is regulated in the Civil Status Act 2013. So far, people have been entered in the civil status register as either “male” or “female”. Since 2019, the gender entry "divers" has been possible as a third option in addition to "male" and "female" in Austria.
There is now a "third option" in numerous countries. In Australia, Bangladesh, Denmark, Germany, India, Malta, Nepal, New Zealand, Portugal and some states of the USA there is a third category such as "non-specified" in civil status or an "x" in the passport.
