A good first step: Germany adopts law banning IGM. But there is still room for improvement

A good first step: Germany adopts law banning IGM. But there is still room for improvement.

On March 25, 2021, the German Bundestag adopted a draft law from the federal government “for the protection of children with variants of sex development”i (19/24686). The law provides a first, yet non-comprehensive, framework to protect intersex children from non-vital, non-emergency medical interventions.