“A woman is a person who identifies herself as a woman,” said the Green Minister for Women, Lisa Paus, in a recent interview with the “Tagesspiegel”. According to the key issues paper on the planned self-determination law, this should also be legal in the future. Many, especially many women, criticize this. A decision by the Federal Arbitration Court of the Greens now confirms their fears.

According to the key issues paper, “a declaration with self-insurance” should suffice for a gender change. Critics fear, among other things, that this invites abuse. For example, after a formal gender change, men could act out exhibitionistic or voyeuristic drives in areas where women have previously been particularly protected. It is also stated that men can use it to gain specific advantages that are deliberately only granted to women.