German parliament to vote on making it easier for people to legally change their name and gender
Source: Associated Press
German parliament to vote on making it easier for people to legally change their name and gender
BY GEIR MOULSON
Updated 2:48 AM EDT, April 12, 2024
BERLIN (AP) — German lawmakers are expected to vote Friday on a government plan to make it easier for transgender, intersex and nonbinary people to change their name and gender in official documents.
The “self-determination law,” one of several social reforms that Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s liberal-leaning coalition government pledged when it took office in late 2021, would take effect on Nov. 1.
It would allow adults to change their first name and legal gender at registry offices without further formalities. They would have to notify the office three months before making the change.
The existing “transsexual law,” which dates back four decades, requires individuals who want to change gender on official documents to first obtain assessments from two experts “sufficiently familiar with the particular problems of transsexualism” and then a court decision.
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