https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/24/germany-self-id-trans-laws/
"Germany’s Federal Cabinet has green lit plans to make it easier for trans and
non-binary people to change their name and gender after a year of legal
pushback.
The legislation, dubbed the Self-Determination Act, aims to make it easier for
trans and non-binary people to change their names on legal documents such as
birth or death certificates.
Justice minister for the Free Democratic Party, Marco Buschmann, told German
outlet ZDF television on Wednesday (23 August) that he believed the current
system to be “very degrading”.
“Imagine that you … simply want to live your life and you don’t wish anyone
anything bad, and then you’re questioned about what your sexual fantasies are,
what underwear you wear and similar things,” he said.
“Now we simply want to make life a bit easier for a small group for which it
has great significance.”
The existing 40-year-old ‘transsexual law’ in Germany currently requires those
who want their gender legally recognised to obtain assessments from medical
experts “sufficiently familiar with the particular problems of transsexualism”.
They are then required to go through a court process, which may or may not
result in the acceptance of their request."
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