Transgender rights in Germany

Transgender rights in the Federal Republic of Germany are regulated by the Self-Determination Act since 2024 and are indirectly affected by other laws like the Abstammungsrecht ("Law of Descent").

The Scholz cabinet replaced the Transsexuals Act with the Self-Determination Act, which removed financial and bureaucratic hurdles to legal gender and name changes. A requirement to undergo Gender-affirming surgery to change key identity documents had already been declared unconstitutional in 2011. Discrimination protections on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation vary across Germany, but discrimination in employment and the provision of goods and services is in principle banned countrywide.

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