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Self-ID in Germany (Selbstbestimmungsgesetz, SBGG) - Lily - Jul 28 2024
In june 2024, Germany passed a law that will allow trans-identified individuals to legally change their sex through declaration at a registry office (Standesamt) (§ 2 SBGG). This new law eliminates the requirement of having undergone sex-reassignment surgery in order to legally change one's sex, as was previously the case under the Transsexuellengesetz.
This law also allows parents to legally change their child's sex (as long as the child is under 14 years old) and provides that parents of children above the age of five need their child's consent for the legal change -- indicating that children younger than five can have their sex legally changed by their parents without their input entirely. (§ 3 SBGG)
§ 7 SBGG says that men who change their legal sex to female will count as female to fill women quotas, whereas for the military they're still men according to § 9 SBGG.
They also established a fine for revealing the previous legal sex or previous name of someone who changed their legal sex of up to 10.000 euros (§§ 13, 14 SBGG), but one of the exceptions for this fine is if the person sharing or seeking the information has a "legal interest" in doing so. I'm not sure how widely this exception will be applied.
Unfortunately i couldn't find an English translation, but the full German law text is here:
https://www.recht.bund.de/bgbl/1/2024/206/regelungstext.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=3