The Self-Determination Act is intended to make it easier for people to change their gender and first name at the registry office. In the future, a declaration should be sufficient - a medical certificate will then no longer be necessary.
For children up to 14 years of age, only parents should be able to make a change. The traffic light draft is met with cross-party rejection by the opposition.. Trans people should have fewer problems changing their gender in the future. There is great excitement among the opposition - the Union even sees the self-determination law as a “real security risk” The Union criticizes a ‘self-created security gap’ for young people. For the opposition, however, the traffic light plans do not go far enough, says parliamentary leader Andrea Bäothee Bäholz (CSU): “Not out of paternalism, but at least out of care of the newly left’’, says Lindholz.