Alex Jurgen

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Alex Jürgen (born 7. September 1976 in Steyr ) is in Austria in Intersex range activist working. Jürgen was the first person in Austria to receive a passport and a birth certificate with the gender designation “ Divers ” or “X” after a complaint was granted before the Constitutional Court .

Life

In the birth certificate, Alex Jürgen was categorized as male; his parents named him Jürgen. Two years later, due to the poor gender characteristics , doctors advise him to socialize as a girl from then on. His first name was changed to Alexandra and his penis and internal testicles were removed. Later he took his male first name Jürgen and female first name Alexandra and combined them to the name Alex Jürgen, under which he appears in public.

Elisabeth Scharang made a documentary about Jürgen and his struggle for the recognition of intersex people. The film was released in 2006 under the title Squid Alarm. Alex Jürgen was one of the first people in Austria to publicly acknowledge their intersex status.

In 2014 Jürgen co-founded the Association of Intersex People Austria (VIMÖ) and was active in it until 2018. Since then Jürgen has been an honorary member of the association.

From 2016 he fought together with the lawyer Helmut Graupner from the Lambda Legal Committee before the Constitutional Court for an entry in the civil status register , in the birth certificate and in the passport regardless of the categories of man and woman. In June 2018, the Constitutional Court confirmed that there must be a third option, invoking Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ (mr): In addition to men and women, now also diverse in Austria. In: Today . May 14, 2019, accessed June 12, 2019 .
  2. ↑ The personal pronoun "er" is used because Alex prefers it to Jürgen himself. See Eva Reisinger: Neither man nor woman: Why Alex Jürgen is fighting for the third gender in Austria. In: ze.tt . June 3, 2018, accessed November 9, 2019 .
  3. ^ A b Eva Reisinger: Neither man nor woman: Why Alex Jürgen fights for the third gender in Austria. In: ze.tt . June 3, 2018, accessed November 9, 2019 .
  4. ↑ VIMÖ team: Good Bye Alex Jürgen * - and thank you! (PDF; 478 kB) In: vimoe.at. March 7, 2018, accessed June 12, 2019 .
  5. ^ Paul Haller, Luan Pertl, Tinou Ponzer: Gender designation “diverse”: Alex Jürgen and the third option. In: The Standard . May 14, 2019, accessed on June 12, 2019 (Austrian German).
personal data
SURNAME Jürgen, Alex
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian intersex activist
DATE OF BIRTH 7th September 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Steyr