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The Mediterranean country of Malta has passed the world’s most inclusive law regarding transgender, gender nonconforming and intersex people — an especially huge accomplishment considering the country has established Catholicism as its official religion in its constitution.

Here’s what the new law will address:

The law — which goes beyond those its fellow European Union members have passed — would allow for someone to change their legal gender through simply filing an affidavit with a notary without a significant waiting period, eliminates any requirement for medical gender reassignment procedures, and prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender identity. It now heads to the desk of President Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca, and LGBT rights advocates expect her to sign.

It also includes some groundbreaking provisions for minors and intersex babies, those born without clearly male or female anatomy. Medical experts estimate that around .1 - .2 percent of children are born with atypical genitals that cannot be classified as either male or female, and in much of the world doctors operate on these children to make their anatomy clearly male or female.

But the Maltese law prohibits “non-medically necessary treatments on the sex characteristics of a person” without informed consent and also allows parents to postpone entering a gender marker on a child’s birth certificate.

This is actually groundbreaking. Can you imagine if we treated our trans, gender nonconforming and intersex citizens this way in the United States? Holy cow.