Last Thursday the Belgian Gender Law (Law of 10 May 2007) was changed by the Parliament (this law offers protection against discrimination with regard to the so called ‘gender’ criteria).

According to the recent amendment the  law will also protect against discrimination on the following grounds : breastfeeding, adoption, medically assisted reproduction … and sex-characteristics.

(transsexuality, gender identity and gender expression were already protected by the Gender Law).

This means that the Belgian Gender Law now offers explicit protection against discrimination for intersexual persons. The incorporation in the Gender Law is interesting since this law – contrary to the general antidiscrimination law – does not permit justification of direct discrimination.

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