The governing Federal Council was quoted as saying that the binary gender model is still strongly anchored in Swiss society, hence rejecting a third-gender option on official records.
In the future, when some sanity has returned to Europe, historians will look back on the Swiss government's choice to oppose the inclusion of a third gender option on official records. But the common trend in the bloc is that neighbouring nations have expanded the options available to citizens who identify as nonbinary.
The governing Federal Council was quoted by AP News as saying that "the binary gender model is still strongly anchored in Swiss society." On Wednesday, the council rejected two recommendations from the parliament to include a third gender option or a non-gender option for official records.
"The social preconditions for the introduction of a third gender or for a general waiver of the gender entry in the civil registry currently are not there," the council continued.
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