Kiwi women, in support of German women, participate in global protest against Germany's new self-ID law.
Germany passed self-ID into law on 1 st November 2024. Under this new law, euphemistically called the Gender Self-Determination Act, any man or woman over 18 can legally swap out the sex they were born to that of a changeable ‘gender’. A person who hurts the feelings one of these men or women by ‘misgendering’ or ‘deadnaming’ them – i.e. not going along with the ‘gender’ fiction - can be fined up to €10,000.¹ Is there anyone who doesn’t see a raft of vexatious complaints arising for spurious hurt feelings from this? New Zealand’s sex self-ID law was passed in June 2023. Our politicians at the time also chose not to believe there were any problems with it, even though the problems were well laid out for them. NZ law states that a changed birth certificate does not have to be taken as proof of a person’s sex, and “other factors” can be taken into account – which could simply be what our eyes and ears tell us. However, many groups and organisations, both public and private, are cav