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Transgender, intersex and non-binary individuals will in future
be able to change their details with a visit to their local
civil registry office, according to a paper setting out the
planned legislation.
Such individuals would no longer have to provide a medical
certificate or go through an often lengthy and expensive court
process in which the person's gender is assessed by two experts
and a judge, as is currently required.
"The current law treats those affected as if they are sick.
There is no justification for this," Justice Minister Marco
Buschmann said in a statement.
Families minister Lisa Paus described the current Transexual Law
as "degrading" and said: "We will now finally abolish it and
replace it with a modern self-determination law."
In a bid to protect young people, the new legislation would
allow individuals aged 14 and over to register a new name and
gender themselves, but a court could overrule that change in
cases where the parents do not support it.
(Reporting by Rachel More; Editing by Tomasz Janowski)
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