reporter: vanja can hardly believe it. years of fighting for a third gender have finally been rewarded. >> there are lots of places in society where there is a split between the sexes. so i have to ask myself again and again, how do i define myself? do i try to fit in, or do i trust myself not to do so, and how are people going to react? reporter: it is an issue that directly affects vanja and around 160,000 other intersex people in germany, people who were born with male and female features into his gender cannot be identified. that is where the problem starts. so far it has only been possible to enter ale or female on the birth register or leave it open. vanja has campaigned for a third gender like inter or diverse. the court has opened the door to that although they have left the exact description open. >> basic personal rights also protect the basic identity of those people who do not identify as male or female. the current law infringes on the prohibition of discrimination because it is not possible to enter anything

away from the bright lights of her job, television host vanja semic says her ex-husband battled p.t.s.d., and she struggles with depression. >> we are surrounded by people with huge psychological problems that are not being treated effectively. they in turn are creating more problems for the people around them. there's widespread depression. even if you manage to deal with all of this inside you, and you find inner happiness, the majority of people around you are depressed and unsatisfied. so your happiness is undermined by all the people around you, because their depression makes you feel guilty. >> reporter: bosnia's collective sense of anger and sadness will be amplified next week with the conclusion of the war crimes trial of bosnian serb general mladic, who's now 76. at a united nations tribunal at the hague, in the netherlands, mladic faces a possible life sentence for genocide and crimes against humanity. the most notable charge is ordering the massacre of nearly 9,000 bosnian men and boys in the town of srebrenica in the summer of 1995. the remains of hundreds of srebrenica vict