How serious the Greens are about separating the sex from the body, they have written down in their party program. "The term 'women'", it says there, "includes everyone who defines themselves in this way." How is this supposed to go together, ask women's rights activists who do not put women in quotation marks and fear that the dissolution of the physical sex will take back the achievements of the women's movement. Every man who defines himself as a woman can now fight for a female position on the list. Robert Habeck could have significantly increased his chances of being chancellor if he had briefly changed his gender.
The Bavarian state parliament member Markus Gatterer, for example, who has defined himself as a woman since 2019 with the same gender characteristics and as Tessa, has won a female list position for the federal elections as Tessa, stands for the fact that the new scope is being used.
Tessa is still registered as Markus by the election committee, but the Greens also want to change that with a new federal law that separates gender and body.
Social democracy, the Left Party and the FDP are seen as open-minded towards the project.
Not every Greens like it.
Denied debate
In July, the Green Party member David Allison caused confusion in the Reutlingen district association. Allison stood up during a board meeting and said he was running for one of the female list spots. He was a woman, he explained to his astonished party colleagues, and lived in a lesbian relationship. This was new information for the wife too. Allison's new femininity could not be seen from the outside, and he said he had no plans to initiate a physical change of sex. According to the party statutes, the board of directors must allow him to stand for election. He did that too.
Allison wasn't sad that he was losing the election. He only wanted to initiate a debate about the side effects of the new women's statute with the action, he said in a short speech after he had returned to the old sex. But his party doesn't want that. Contrary to what had been agreed, the process is not recorded in the minutes or in the press release, which is why Allison turns to the press. Contact with the party broke off. A few days ago, says Allison, Cindy Holmberg, a member of the state parliament, quit his position as a research assistant without giving any reason. When asked by this newspaper, Holmberg does not want to say anything about this. The most promising would be for Allison to define himself as a woman again and to complain about the trans-hostility in his party.But it's actually not funny.