In the key issues paper for the planned law, the traffic light coalition provides that a legal gender change should be made possible in the future without an expert opinion.
A mere declaration at the registry office should be sufficient for a change of gender, which can be changed annually.
This raises follow-up questions for numerous areas of law.
According to our guest, the Greifswald law professor Boris Schinkels, the new law also affects the protected area of freedom of expression.
From a legal point of view, Schinkels considers gender and gender identity to be “not functionally comparable” and makes a concrete proposal as to how both characteristics could be recorded in civil status law in a different way.
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Feuilleton correspondent in Cologne and responsible for "Humanities".
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The Constitutional Court of the State of Berlin has ordered that the House of Representatives election of September 26 last year must be repeated in its entirety due to significant electoral errors.
We analyze the reasoning of the judges - and consider what significance the decision could have for the federal elections that took place on the same day.
Also on the show: A "just judgment" on infection protection law, a matching listener survey and - as always in the episodes with Patrick Bahners - some legal literature.
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Topics of the show:
4:47: Interview with Prof. Dr.
Boris Schinkel on the Self-Determination Act
40:40: Court decision on the election of the House of Representatives in Berlin
1:02:27: Fair verdict on infection protection law with listener survey
1:12:48: Legal literature tip: "An anti-Semitic double murder" (Uffa Jensen)