https://twitter.com/FelineVamps/status/1579660234335092736

The "unification" (annexation really) was literally a step back for LGBT and women's rights in eastern Germany.

  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    One of the few good things about the annexation was that it shamed the BRD into legalising LGBT relationships as it would have been bad optics to criminalise east German LGBT people overnight by imposing BRD laws on them.

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Unfortunately, it didn't shame the BRD into abandoning the human rights violation known as the Transsexuellengesetz. Since the annexation, this law that regulates legal gender and name changes and that lags behind DDR legislation on trans rights has been repeatedly ruled to be unconstitutional, but the much-needed replacement for that has just been postponed again. Maybe next summer, we will finally catch up in that regard, although i don't know how much damage TERFs in the SPD will do to the reform until then. This place is actively trying to murder me haha :jokah: