The German legislation will allow adults to change their first name and legal gender at registry offices without further formalities. The new rules will allow minors 14 years and older to change their name and legal gender with approval from their parents or guardians; if they don’t agree, teenagers could ask a family court to overrule them. In the case of children younger than 14, parents or guardians would have to make registry office applications on their behalf.
After a formal change of name and gender takes effect, no further changes would be allowed for a year. The new legislation focuses on individuals’ legal identities. It does not involve any revisions to Germany’s rules for gender-transition surgery.
Among others, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Spain already have similar legislation. In the U.K., the Scottish parliament in 2022 passed a bill that would allow people aged 16 or older to change the gender designation on identity documents by self-declaration. That was vetoed by the British government, a decision that Scotland’s highest civil court upheld in December.
In other socially liberal reforms, Scholz’s government has legalized the possession of limited amounts of cannabis; eased the rules on gaining German citizenship and ended restrictions on holding dual citizenship; and ended a ban on doctors “advertising” abortion services. Same-sex marriage was already legalized in 2017.
Holy fucking shit the cis are not ok.
The wrong Germany won the cold war, what the fuck.
We, collectively as humanity, clearly didnt deserve the GDR
But muh Stasi!
The Stasi were the ones to recommend to the SED to change policy on queer rights
Breaking into the house of a reactionary and rearranging their stuff to fuck with them is objectively funny.
When I'm the Secretary of The Supreme World Soviet I will make a worldwide Gender Stasi into reality
Spoiler: These laws did not prevail. "Reunited" Germany continued under West German trans laws, which meant that pre-existing marriages of trans people where unconsensually divorced until 2008 and made either bottom surgery or forced sterilization a mandatory prerequisite for name and gender id changes until 2011.
The Cruelty is the point
The western powers never upheld the Potsdam agreement.