"third gender" to be officialy recognised in Germany

[Chas]

Mehemet, since gender is simply what is between your legs, what would that make you if I cut off your genitals? Would you insist that people referred you as an 'it'?

Obviously there are also other anatomical differences, though I've told you that this is just simply the most basic way of determining whether a child that is born is male or female.

Gender is based on how you're born, and that is in nearly all cases either male or female, I'm sorry but thats the way it is.

No, it's not. Gender and sex are not the same thing and that is being partly addressed by this law. Sex can be indeterminate, and it is not as rare as you seem to suppose.

People can be born hermaphrodites - that is a fact, and it is NOT so simple as being male/female. Some people also XXY or XXXY or whatever regarding sex chromosomes and do not appear to be intersex at all.

Yes, but obviously that is quite a rare case, and it's not really the case that both sides are so dominant that a person is able to reproduce as both a male and a female. One part is mostly more dominant than the other.
I believe such cases should be determined prior to birth and aborted beforehand, as not to produce such flawed individuals.

Gender may be the same as sex in German, but the article was written in English. I'm going to comment on how its English comes across.

Whatever man, if its the case of what a word actually means, I think its best not to argue, and simply use a dictionary to determine the meaning.

Gender is how one views themselves, mentally, in relation to societal standards, etc of men and women. Their physical body may match, not match, or in some cases there is no body to match.

Well, I don't think that a dictionary agrees with you though. You don't make up definitions as you see fit.
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictiona...1?q=gender
http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition...r?q=gender

Well, both dictionaries do not make a reference to self-designation.
Whatever.
Femini

Did you actually read the definition?
Gender - the state of being male or female (typically used with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones):

It is not the dangly bits or lack thereof.

Germany is working with a matter of sex, something that is NOT ALWAYS straightforward at birth, so that later the child may decide what is comfortable for them instead of being decided for them.

Well, if you mean as in being a defect as a person having anatomical characteristics of both sexes, like, having ovaries while having a penis, or similar things, I've already stated that these are abnormalities that should be assessed before birth and terminated if necessary.
But in cases they see the light of the day, they should not be given a special legal status.

Yes, let's just abort them. You sound more and more like a Nazi with every post.