Currently the bank only puts the male form of the word customer (Kunde) on its forms. (In German, the male form of a noun is generally also used as the general non-gender specific term, ed.) On Tuesday, the High Court in Karlsruhe will rule on the case - if it rules in the woman’s favour, standard forms will have to be reformulated by banks, state institutions and private companies. “I can’t believe that all the sexes are still being addressed in the male form in 2018,” she said, adding that it was not enough to argue that using the male form assumed the inclusion of other sexes. The state court in Saarland, which previously considered the case before rejecting the woman's argument, saw things similarly.

Source: The Local February 19, 2018 11:26 UTC