I reached out to Rona Duwe and Judith (L Squad Berlin) to talk about the historic vote taking place in the German Bundestag tomorrow that will allow parents to choose the sex of their newborn babies. That might sound crazy but don’t fret: the child zirself can confirm their parents’ selection once they hit the ripe and mature old age of five.
This insane iteration of “legal gender by self-determination” (the news is so fresh I can’t even find an official source to link to) comes after years of intense, secretive lobbying by perhaps Europe’s most determined army of activists. They have so much money, so much access to influence… it was always going to be an uphill battle.
But the activists and their mates in the legislature seem to have managed to sneak in some of the maddest provisions in any self-id law yet proposed. According to Rona, there will be new non-binary option - coupled with allowing parents to select their child’s legal sex, I think we can expect lots of woke weirdos declaring the arrival of their enby offspring. I’m cringing already.
The law will also allow you can change your “gender” as often as you want - but you must wait a sensible (?) 12 months in between each change, and there are “forced outing” provisions that conceal the identity of criminals that would send a shiver down any normal person’s spine.
They also told me about proposed updates to the conversion therapy law that will go after parents, and the introduction of new tattle-tale centres where you can go and report a non-crime hate crime, similar to the UK’s “non-crime hate incidents”.
I suspect these non-crime recordings are a ploy to gather data on the prevalence of hurty-feels-type crimes (calling a man a man, for example), setting the stage for criminal charges to be introduced further down the line.
It’s all very Stasi, as Rona pointed out. For L Squad, who has been a grassroots campaigner for women and lesbian’s rights for decades, she sees it as nothing less than the demolition of German democracy: if the lawmakers put in place legislation to forbids us from saying a man is a woman, she says, where do we go from there?
The developments in the UK since the release of the Cass Review have not penetrated German discourse. The two countries might as well be two different galaxies. The German medical institutions are either captured, they said, or if not captured, forced by conversion therapy bans to go along with whatever nonsense their patients come up with. It’s terribly doom and gloom.
Read the full Cass Review on paediatric gender transition.
During the conversation we talked about “what happened to Rona”, so here’s the context: she is relentlessly targetted by trans activists who are trying to destroy her. She suffered a horrific time due to spurious criminal complaints - however, it galvanised people to support her. You can read more on her Substack.
Anyway, they will be there in force tomorrow outside the Bundestag to tell the gender-fetish-industrial-complex that they have no plan to shut up. I can’t make it because I’m going to Ireland’s first homegrown LetWomenSpeak-type event, called Women Are Speaking.
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Germany to vote on the wildest, weirdest self-id bill yet