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\r\nHowever, men who have sex with men outside of a monogamous relationship still face a 4 month deferral.","value_formatted":"Legal with restrictions","end_date_formatted":"Apr 1, 2023","start_date_formatted":"Sep 24, 2021"},{"id":"40","value":"Banned (1-year deferral)","description":"A 1-year deferral was in effect.","value_formatted":"Banned (1-year deferral)","end_date_formatted":"Sep 24, 2021","start_date_formatted":"Aug 7, 2017"},{"id":"26","value":"Banned (indefinite deferral)","description":"Banned up until 2017.","value_formatted":"Banned (indefinite deferral)","end_date_formatted":"Aug 7, 2017"}],"description":"The ability for MSMs (men who have sex with men) to donate blood or tissue for organ transplants. A deferral period refers to a waiting time before a man can donate after having sex.","label_short":"Donating Blood","current_status":{"id":"25","value":"Legal","description":"On April 1 2023, the Transfusion Act (Transfusionsgesetz, TFG<\/i>) was amended to fully remove restrictions on blood donations by MSMs.
\r\nAccordingly, the amendment to the law obliged the German Medical Association to subsequently adapt the blood donation guidelines within four months in agreement with the Paul Ehrlich Institute<\/i>, Germany’s medical regulatory body.","value_formatted":"Legal","start_date_formatted":"Apr 1, 2023"}},"adoption":{"id":"4","label":"Same-sex adoption","history":[{"id":"6","value":"Second parent adoption only","description":"Same-sex couples in Germany can legally adopt a step-child, biological or not of the other partner.","value_formatted":"Second parent adoption only","end_date_formatted":"Sep 30, 2017","start_date_formatted":"Feb 19, 2013"}],"description":"The ability for same-sex couples to legally adopt a child.","label_short":"Adoption","current_status":{"id":"3","value":"Legal","description":"Section 1741 of the German Civil Code grants all married couples the right to adopt children.","value_formatted":"Legal","start_date_formatted":"Oct 1, 2017"}},"marriage":{"id":"3","label":"Same-sex marriage","history":[{"id":"33","value":"Civil unions (marriage rights)","description":"Germany recognizes civil unions and provides tax benefits to couples in a civil union.","value_formatted":"Civil unions (marriage rights)","end_date_formatted":"Sep 30, 2017","start_date_formatted":"Aug 1, 2001"}],"description":"Marriage and marriage recognition between two people of the same biological sex and\/or gender identity.","label_short":"Gay Marriage","current_status":{"id":"8","value":"Legal","description":"A bill for marriage equality passed the Bundestag on 30 June 2017 and the Bundesrat on 7 July, becoming law on 1 October.
\r\nParagraph 1353 of the German Civil Code.","value_formatted":"Legal","start_date_formatted":"Oct 1, 2017"}},"military":{"id":"5","label":"Serving openly in military","description":"The ability for homosexuals to serve in the military and be open about their sexuality.","label_short":"Military","current_status":{"id":"16","value":"Legal","description":"Article 3 (1) of the Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany and Article 14 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms protect against unequal treatment on grounds of sexual orientation. ","value_formatted":"Legal","start_date_formatted":"2000"}},"censorship":{"id":"15","label":"Censorship of LGBT Issues","description":"Censorship or prohibition of discussing, promoting, or teaching LGBTQ+ topics in media, schools, and in the general public.","label_short":"Censorship","current_status":{"id":"56","value":"No censorship","description":"Article 5 of the German Basic Law guarantees freedom of press, speech and opinion.","value_formatted":"No censorship"}},"homosexuality":{"id":"1","label":"Homosexual activity","history":[{"id":"1","value":"Legal","description":"Section 175 of the Criminal Code was relaxed for persons over 21 years in East Germany in 1968, with West Germany following suit in 1969. However, although this meant that homosexual activity between men was decriminalized, it was not made legal.","value_formatted":"Legal","end_date_formatted":"Jun 11, 1994","start_date_formatted":"Sep 1, 1969"},{"id":"35","value":"Illegal (death penalty as punishment)","description":"Section 175 of the Criminal Code was amended during Nazi rule to create harsher penalties for homosexual behavior between men. Imprisonment was to range from three months to ten years in prison. Many homosexual men died in the Nazi concentration camps they were sent to.","value_formatted":"Illegal (death penalty as punishment)","end_date_formatted":"Sep 1, 1969","start_date_formatted":"Sep 1, 1935"},{"id":"31","value":"Male illegal, female legal","description":"Section 175 of the Criminal Code of the German Empire criminalized homosexual activity between men over the age of 18.
\r\nThe penalty was imprisonment or a loss of civil rights.","value_formatted":"Male illegal, female legal","end_date_formatted":"Sep 1, 1935","start_date_formatted":"May 15, 1871"}],"description":"Consensual sexual activity between individuals of the same sex.","label_short":"Homosexuality","current_status":{"id":"1","value":"Legal","description":"Germany fully repealed section 175 of the German Criminal Code and legalized homosexual activity in 1994.","value_formatted":"Legal","start_date_formatted":"Jun 11, 1994"}},"age-of-consent":{"id":"11","label":"Equal age of consent","description":"The difference between legal age of consent for homosexual sex and heterosexual sex.","label_short":"Age of Consent","current_status":{"id":"27","value":"Equal","description":"The age of consent of 14 years<\/b> is equal for everyone.","value_formatted":"Equal","start_date_formatted":"1988"}},"discrimination":{"id":"6","label":"LGBT discrimination","description":"Prohibition of discrimination based on sexual orientation and\/or gender identity.","label_short":"Discrimination","current_status":{"id":"19","value":"Illegal","description":"National law was amended in 2006 when the Treaty of Amsterdam was signed - giving all people the same rights under law.
\r\n
\r\nThe Federal Constitutional Court of Germany clarified in 1 BvR 2019\/16 that the general right of personality (Article 2 (1) in conjunction with Article 1 (1) of the Basic Law) protects gender identity. It also protects the gender identity of non-binary people.
\r\nArticle 3 (3) of the Basic Law includes non-binary people on the protection against discrimination on ground of their gender.","value_formatted":"Illegal","start_date_formatted":"Jun 29, 2006"}},"changing-gender":{"id":"7","label":"Right to change legal gender","history":[{"id":"21","value":"Legal, no restrictions","description":"The Self-Determination Act (Selbstbestimmungsgesetz<\/i>) allows transgender, non-binary, and intersex people to change their legal first names and gender entry once a year through self-identification.
\r\n
\r\nFrom the age of 14, minors may make the declaration themselves with the consent of their guardians; to protect the personal rights of young people, the family court can replace the parents' decision at the request of the minor in cases where the custodians do not consent, based on the best interests of the child.
\r\nChildren under 14 will need their parents or guardians to make a registry office application on their behalf.
\r\nFor the declaration to be effective, the registry office must be notified of the upcoming declaration at least 3 months and at most 6 months before the declaration is made.
\r\n
\r\nOuting or deadnaming one against their will in a way that caused them harm can be punished with a fine of up to €10,000.
\r\n
\r\nIf the gender entry is changed from \"male\" to another and \"a case of tension or defense\" arises within two months after the change, the person will still be considered male for military conscription.
\r\n
\r\nPeople who went through the previous process can apply for monetary compensation.","value_formatted":"Legal, no restrictions","start_date_formatted":"Nov 1, 2024"},{"id":"51","value":"Legal, but requires surgery","description":"Section 8 § 1 of the German Transsexuellengesetz<\/i> (Transsexuals Act of September 10, 1980) states that transgender people can change their first names and gender entry under the condition of gender-affirming surgery, sterilization, and divorce.","value_formatted":"Legal, but requires surgery","end_date_formatted":"Jan 28, 2011","start_date_formatted":"Sep 10, 1980"}],"description":"Legal recognition of sex reassignment by permitting a change of legal gender on an individual's birth certificate.","label_short":"Changing Gender","current_status":{"id":"62","value":"Legal, but requires medical diagnosis","description":"Following the amendment of the Act on the Amendment of Names and Sex Determination in Special Cases, known as the Law on Transsexuality (1981) by Judgment No. 1 BvR 3295\/07 (2011) of the Federal Constitutional Court, the criteria for changing the name or both the name and the gender marker were unified. Currently, the law requires applicants to (i) prove that \"due to their transsexual status, they do not feel comfortable with their sex registered at birth\", (ii) they have lived for at least three years \"in accordance with the gender they identify with\" and (iii) that their \"situation of transexuality is foreseeably stable\". This procedure is carried out before a municipal judge, which has to verify that these requirements are met by subjecting the applicant to an examination carried out by two expert witnesses \"specialised in transsexualism\". (ILGA)
\r\n
\r\nIn 2017, the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMFSJ<\/i>) commissioned the Humboldt University in Berlin to prepare an expert opinion on the \"need for regulation and reform for transgender people\".
\r\nIt found that the current assessment procedure is in many cases characterized by disproportionate time and expense as well as degrading and discriminatory experiences and violates the fundamental rights of the applicants.
\r\n
\r\nThe non-governmental organization Deutsche Gesellschaft für Transidentität und Intersexualität e.V. (dgti)<\/i> issues a supplemental ID card which contains one's self-chosen first names, pronouns and gender before a legal name change has taken place. It is known and accepted by German ministries, the police, and many authorities. The supplemental ID card is often a condition to correct one's name at, among others, schools, universities, banks and insurance companies. In five German states, references to the ID have been included in coronavirus ordinances and associated explanations to recognize it as an identification document, e.g., together with vaccination certificates.
\r\nIt has a special status of recognition in Germany. The legal basis of the supplemental ID card is the implementation of the request of the European Parliament, communicated in the 11th legislative period of the German parliament.
\r\n
\r\nWhen the Self-Identification law was introduced, people who went through this old process could apply for a monetary compensation.","value_formatted":"Legal, but requires medical diagnosis","end_date_formatted":"Nov 1, 2024","start_date_formatted":"2011"}},"conversion-therapy":{"id":"14","label":"Conversion therapy","description":"Legal status of conducting sexual orientation changing therapy (\"ex-gay\" therapy)","label_short":"Conversion Therapy","current_status":{"id":"48","value":"Banned","description":"The Law for the Protection Against Conversion Treatments (KonvBehSchG<\/i>) bans providing, arranging and advertising conversion therapy. Conducting conversion therapy on minors, or persons of legal age is those whose consent was obtained without their volition, is also explicitly banned.
\r\n
\r\nProviding, arranging or advertising conversion therapy is punishable by a fine up to €30,000.
\r\nCarrying out conversion therapy on a minor, or an adult whose consent was obtained without their volition, is punishable by up to a year of imprisonment or a fine.","value_formatted":"Banned","start_date_formatted":"Jun 24, 2020"}},"gender-affirming-care":{"id":"17","label":"Gender-Affirming Care","history":[{"id":"69","value":"Legal, but restricted for minors","description":"In 1979, Germany adopted the ICD-9 classification, which included codes allowing for the diagnosis of transsexualism in adults.","value_formatted":"Legal, but restricted for minors","end_date_formatted":"Jan 1, 1997","start_date_formatted":"1979"},{"id":"72","value":"Banned","description":"Medical transition is not possible","value_formatted":"Banned","end_date_formatted":"Jan 1, 1979","start_date_formatted":"Jun 5, 1945"},{"id":"72","value":"Banned","description":"With the rise of the Nazi regime, transgender healthcare is banned, and the Berlin Institute for Sexual Science is closed;
\r\nthe Nazi regime implements laws §§ 175 183, targeting LGBTQ+ individuals, ","value_formatted":"Banned","end_date_formatted":"Jun 5, 1945","start_date_formatted":"May 6, 1933"},{"id":"68","value":"Legal","description":"In 1919 the non-profit foundation Institute for Sexual Science was founded in Berlin by Magnus Hirschfeld, becoming the first sexology research center in the world.
\r\nThe institute provided a range of endocrinologic and surgical services, including an early form of modern sex reassignment surgery in 1931.
\r\nLudwig Levy-Lenz, the institute's primary surgeon for transgender patients, pioneered early facial feminization and masculinization procedures, alongside developing hair removal treatments utilizing the institute's X-ray facility.","value_formatted":"Legal","end_date_formatted":"May 6, 1933","start_date_formatted":"Jul 6, 1919"}],"description":"Medical and psychological support designed to help individuals transition to the gender they identify with, including hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and surgeries.","label_short":"Gender-Affirming Care","current_status":{"id":"68","value":"Legal","description":"The cost for gender affirming care in Germany is covered by public health insurance.
\r\n
\r\nCondition for hormone therapy is a letter of indication from a psychotherapist,
\r\nvoice therapy a letter of indication from a medical professional,
\r\nepilation of hair (laser\/needle) 6 months of psychotherapy of 12\/24 sessions with 50\/25 minutes each (10 hours in total),
\r\nmastectomy 10 hours of psychotherapy,
\r\ngenital surgeries 10 hours of psychotherapy and one year of “daily life test”,
\r\nbreast augmentation 10 hours of psychotherapy, 2 years of hormone therapy, and a breast size of smaller than an A cup,
\r\nfacial and vocal feminization, tracheal shave and rib section are approved in an appraisal process with the medical service if “the appearance is not yet sufficiently adjusted” after one year.
\r\n
\r\nIn 1998, Germany adopted the ICD-10 classification, which contains codes for diagnosing transsexualism in adulthood and childhood, which authorize the initiation of medical transition.","value_formatted":"Legal","start_date_formatted":"Jan 1, 1998"}},"housing-discrimination":{"id":"13","label":"LGBT housing discrimination","description":"Prohibition of discrimination based on sexual orientation and\/or gender identity when applying for housing or discrimination by landlords \/ property owners.","label_short":"Housing Discrimination","current_status":{"id":"45","value":"Sexual orientation and gender identity","description":"Section 1 of the General Act on Equal Treatment (Allgemeines Gleichbehandlungsgesetz, AGG<\/i>) prohibits discrimination on housing.","value_formatted":"Sexual orientation and gender identity","start_date_formatted":"Aug 18, 2006"}},"intersex-infant-surgery":{"id":"18","label":"Intersex infant surgery","description":"Medical interventions performed on intersex infants to alter their genital appearance to conform to typical male or female standards, often without the informed consent of the child who is too young to participate in the decision-making process.","label_short":"Intersex Infant Surgery","current_status":{"id":"73","value":"Full ban","description":"German law prohibits intersex surgery on infants. However, intersex rights campaigners have criticised the law for having too many loopholes caused by ambiguous wording and for not defining any penalties for those who perform unauthorised surgery.","value_formatted":"Full ban","start_date_formatted":"Mar 25, 2021"}},"employment-discrimination":{"id":"12","label":"LGBT employment discrimination","description":"Prohibition of discrimination based on sexual orientation and\/or gender identity in employment, including hiring, promotion, termination, harassment, etc.","label_short":"Employment Discrimination","current_status":{"id":"42","value":"Sexual orientation and gender identity","description":"Due to Germany being a Federal Republic many states have had anti-discrimination laws as early as 1992. But by signing the Treaty of Amsterdam (EU) Germany amended its national anti-discrimination laws to include sexual orientation. ","value_formatted":"Sexual orientation and gender identity","start_date_formatted":"2006"}},"non-binary-gender-recognition":{"id":"16","label":"Legal recognition of non-binary gender","history":[{"id":"57","value":"Recognized","description":"The Self-Determination Act (Selbstbestimmungsgesetz<\/i>) applies (see: right to change legal gender).","value_formatted":"Recognized","start_date_formatted":"Nov 1, 2024"},{"id":"58","value":"Not legally recognized","description":"Non-binary genders are not recognized.","value_formatted":"Not legally recognized","end_date_formatted":"Jan 1, 2018"}],"description":"Legal recognition of non-binary, genderqueer, or third gender identities.","label_short":"Non-Binary Gender Recognition","current_status":{"id":"59","value":"Intersex only","description":"The Civil Status Act (PStG<\/i>) was amended to include Parapraph 45b to allow intersex people to identify themselves as \"diverse\" (\"divers\"<\/i>) or remove the gender entry. ","value_formatted":"Intersex only","end_date_formatted":"Nov 1, 2024","start_date_formatted":"Jan 1, 2018"}}},"group_trips":[]},"editorials":[],"custom_pages_attach":[],"venues":[],"hotels":[],"today_events":[],"menu_page":[],"tomorrow_events":[],"events":[],"custom_pages":null},"gtag":{"content1":"Gay Germany","content3":"Gay Rhineland-Palatinate","content5":"gay-rhineland-palatinate"},"meta":{"country":"Germany","countryCode":"DE"}}},"page":"\/destination\/[slug]\/[state]","query":{"slug":"gay-germany","state":"gay-rhineland-palatinate"},"buildId":"3Bzcq2urnRNfDHRbyhGq1","isFallback":false,"isExperimentalCompile":false,"dynamicIds":[34862,67114,78385,57560,14623,91932],"gssp":true,"appGip":true,"scriptLoader":[{"id":"gtm-tag","strategy":"lazyOnload","defer":true,"async":true,"children":"(function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start':\n new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],\n j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.defer=true;j.src=\n 'https:\/\/www.googletagmanager.com\/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f);\n })(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-PH3GGMS');"}]}