Self-Determination Act | |
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German Bundestag | |
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Citation | Gesetz über die Selbstbestimmung in Bezug auf den Geschlechtseintrag (SBGG) of 19 June 2024 |
Territorial extent | Germany |
Passed by | German Bundestag |
Passed | 12 April 2024 |
Passed by | German Bundesrat |
Passed | 17 May 2024 |
Signed by | President Frank-Walter Steinmeier |
Signed | 19 June 2024 |
Commenced | 1 November 2024 |
Codification | |
Acts repealed | Transsexuals Act German: Transsexuellengesetz |
Legislative history | |
First chamber: German Bundestag | |
Introduced | 1 November 2023 |
First reading | 15 November 2023 |
Second reading | 12 April 2024 |
Third reading | 12 April 2024 |
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Second chamber: German Bundesrat | |
Received from the German Bundestag | 26 April 2024 |
Passed | 17 May 2024 |
Summary | |
German federal law on the free and independent determination of legal gender | |
Status: Not fully in force |
The law on self-determination with regard to gender entry (German: Gesetz über die Selbstbestimmung in Bezug auf den Geschlechtseintrag, SBGG), unofficially also called the Self-Determination Act (German: Selbstbestimmungsgesetz) is intended to make it easier for transgender, intersex and non-binary people in Germany to have their gender entry and first name changed.
A draft bill of the law has been available since May 2023. Following detailed changes, it was passed as a government draft on 23 August 2023.[1][2] Further changes were made before it was adopted by the German Bundestag on 12 April 2024[3] and passed the German Bundesrat on 17 May 2024.[4] The law was promulgated in the Bundesgesetzblatt on 21 June 2024.[5]
The law stipulates that the gender entry and first name can be changed by simply making a declaration at the Standesamt; A three-month waiting period must be observed beforehand. Medical measures are neither regulated nor mandated by the SBGG.
With the entry into force of the Self-Determination Act on 1 November 2024, the 1980 Transsexuals Act (German: Transsexuellengesetz, TSG), which prescribes a complex expert procedure and judicial recognition of the changes for changing the gender entry and name, will no longer be in force.[6] In addition, it amends the 2018 Third gender law, which previously only allowed intersex people to legally identify as a third, non-binary gender.
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