A thorough medical check-up awaits anyone who applies to join Germany's police or fire service. But transsexual or intersexual applicants probably won't make the cut, it emerged on Friday. Those who have undergone gender reassignment surgery will probably be rejected if they apply for Germany's police or fire service, says Berndt Krömer (Christian Democratic Union), a member of the Berlin city government responsible for security policy. [...] To be fit for duty, an applicant has to have "an intact andrological [male] or gynecological [female] hormone system," Krömer wrote. ...