Germany's new Gender Self-Determination Law will come into force on November 1. It eliminates medical reports and a judicial process to change the name and sexual assignment on documents.
Until now, this requires two psychiatric reports that include intimate questions and a long judicial procedure. Germany thus joins the trail of countries like Spain in which gender can now be modified in official documents without complying with the medical requirements on sex reassignment surgery that most States usually request. The law stipulates that sex registration can be changed again after one year and does not affect medical interventions for gender reassignment and this does not apply for some time after Separate guidelines for this apply for this and some time for some other reasons, says the German Conference of Psychotherapists for Gender reassignment (CPSiG) The new law, which had a total of 374 votes in favor, 251 against and 11 abstentions in the Bundestag (lower house of the German Parliament), will be possible to request the change in the registry in August.