You may want to put progressive in "", because our government does fuck-all about all the progressive policies it wanted to enact after 16 years of Merkelian conservative drudgery.

I'm not even talking about the plans to legalize weed, which will first be reviewed by the EU, which means either France or Sweden will kill them. I'm talking about how these Vaushite Rosa killer hemorrhoids are pissing my rights as an LGBT person away because the only thing they care about is sending weapons to fucking neo-nazis and criminalizing climate protests.

When they signed their coalition agreement after the election, they made this big plan for queer rights action. "we've already drafted all of this, it only needs to be ratified, it will all be passed within a year." The situation now, after half of the legislative period is over is still:

• hate crimes against gay and especially trans people are steadily increasing, we're on the Trans Murder Monitor for the first time again since 2008. Anything done against this is restricted to "we hear you, we see you" plattitudes and egregious pinkwashing.

• finally offering legal recognition of trans people as a protected group, increasing our protection from hate crimes? LOL kiddo, we need a 2/3 majority for that, no way the CDU fascists will play along with a law that makes it harder for them to misgender me without consequences.

• in spite of this clearly going against EU asylum laws, Germany still does not fully recognize persecution of LGBT people as a reason to become a refugee. One of our nazi judges recently ruled that a gay man from Algeria, who had gone on national TV under his real name and showing his face, talking about how he's persecuted for being gay should be sent back to Algeria because "it would be no problem for him to just hide that he is gay."

• the reformed law for name and legal gender changes that was supposed to replace the Transsexuellengesetz (as outdated as the name implies, ruled to be unconstitutional by our supreme court twice already) has been postponed to "hopefully next summer". This means i still cannot change my name and cannot get my gender recognized without paying 2000 € for psychological evaluations and court fees and going in front of a tribunal that would do inquisition style questioning about my gender identity, sex life, if i conform enough to the accepted cliché of a tradwife bimbo etc.

• Reformed laws for lesbian motherhood that would mean the second mother no longer needs to formally adopt the child and no longer is listed as the child's father? Postponed as well.

• Same for laws recognizing rainbow families and allowing for kids having up to four legal guardians.

• Oh, donating blood as a trans person or as gay man? Still only possible if you're in a steady monogamous relationship, otherwise you're ruled too much of a redacted to give blood.

So no, our government does not deserve to be called progressive even ironically. They are traitors, they are furuncles on my ass, they are cowards who fold to TERFs and nazis. It is really no surpise they love Azovites so much. Fuck them. Fuck them with a rusty rake.

:germany-cool: Deutschland soll in Flammen stehen. :germany-cool: