and support." Similar recommendations were made later the same year by the UN Committee Against Torture. In July 2018, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women issued concluding observations on harmful practices, recommending that Switzerland "take all necessary measures to ensure that no child undergoes unnecessary surgery intended to assign sex". The Committee also called for access to medical records, and the provision of compensation . In April 2019, the Grand Council of Geneva passed two motions, one unanimously, against the use of such surgeries, which they labelled "mutilation". The motions foresee a compensation scheme and free psychosocial counselling for the victims, as well as the dismissal of any doctor or physician who performs these procedures on intersex people without their consent. Remedies and claims for compensation The 2012 National Advisory Commission on Biomedical Ethics report is notable for making a clear apology for damage done to intersex people in the past, and up until the present, calling for societal recognition: An April 2019 motion by the Grand Council of Geneva proposed a compensation scheme. Identification documents In 2012, the National Advisory Commission on Biomedical Ethics called for increased flexibility in amending sex as recorded in the civil status register. In response to the report, the deputy director of Bern University Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies called in 2013 for intersex people to be designated an "indeterminate sex". Advocacy group Zwischengeschlecht has described the creation of new sex classifications as "silly season fantasies". In 2018, the National Council, the lower house of Parliament, accepted a motion to allow intersex individuals to leave their sex entry blank, with 109 votes in favour. The Federal Council will now review the motions and later express recommendations. Marriage Same-sex marriage became legal in Switzerland on 1 July 2022 following a referendum on the matter in September of the previous year. Intersex people may marry others with the same sex classification. Advocacy Swiss peer support and advocacy organizations include the peer support and advocacy organization InterAction Suisse, self-help group Selbsthilfegruppe Intersex, parent support group Verein SI Selbsthilfe Intersexualität, and advocacy organization Zwischengeschlecht. In August 2016, Zwischengeschlecht described actions to promote equality or civil status legislation without action on banning "intersex genital mutilations" as a form of pinkwashing. The organization has previously highlighted evasive government statements to UN Treaty Bodies that conflate intersex, transgender and LGBT issues, instead of addressing harmful practices on