„Ich wäre lieber ein Junge …“

The Self-determination Law passed by the German Bundestag on April 12 2024 has the intention that in the future every person over 14 years old, whose subjective feeling of identification deviates from their objectively given biological gender, can once per year explain to the registry office that the information should be altered or deleted, without presuppositions, as long as there is consent by their legal representative. An assessment or medical certification is no longer necessary and a mandatory expert counselling is also not required for minors. Exactly this part of the draft of the law is the subject of criticism. For some it goes too far and for others not far enough: a topic that misleads to polemics, but which in view of the exponentially increased number of young girls with gender-related identity conflicts deserves to be differentially considered and to be illuminated from different perspectives in the best interests of the child.