This is the best summary I could come up with:
Lawmakers in Germany on Friday approved a law to make it easier for transgender, intersex, and nonbinary people to change their name and gender in official records.
The law, supported by Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s three-party coalition and the socialist Left Party, eventually passed on a vote of 374 to 251.
“As trans people, we experience time and again that our dignity is made a matter of negotiation,” Green lawmaker Nyke Slawik, herself a transgender woman who changed her legal gender, told parliament.
“You have to imagine not to be able to pay with your [debit] card in a store, not to be able to go to your doctor with your insurance without being accused of fraud or, depending on the situation, having the police called on you,” said Nox-Koenig.
The law has come under fire from conservatives and most notably from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which has said it will allow people to arbitrarily change their genders.
The deputy chair of the conservative CDU/CSU bloc, Andrea Lindholz, told broadcaster WDR 5 that the new law could be abused for criminal purposes, as it no longer required those changing their names and genders to register them with police.
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Go Germany! Meanwhile dutch politicians chickened out and decided to vote on if they would rather not vote on our version of this law. Because they’re all fucking cowards.
I mean yes that was practically the situation for the last 40 years here.
Late 70s the constitutional court said that government must enact a legal framework for name changes, that then happened in 1980. The court then over time went ahead and voided more paragraphs of that law than they left intact, here’s a list. The socdems back then basically only did it because they had to, then came a long conservative government, the next socdem government did civil partnerships, then another long conservative government (with, surprisingly, gay marriage), and now another socdem government with the rest of the country having moved sufficiently forward for them to actually just do it.
It’s Germany in a nutshell: Certain things take ages but once they’re done they’re actually done and only the fringes of the fringes of society are opposed. Opposition from the conservatives is mostly pro forma and details, opposition from fascists (i.e. AfD) is, as always, tactical/populist, the only actual opposition I’m seeing is from TERFs like Alice Schwarzer. Probably should be called an *ERF, TBH, it’s almost easier to list whom she doesn’t exclude.