{"id":238,"date":"2022-05-14T14:37:11","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T12:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vorbildergesucht.noblogs.org\/?p=238"},"modified":"2022-05-14T14:39:09","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T12:39:09","slug":"sehr-geehrte-damenherren-geschlechtseintrag-aendern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vorbildergesucht.noblogs.org\/en-US\/post\/2022\/05\/14\/sehr-geehrte-damenherren-geschlechtseintrag-aendern\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Dear Ladies, Gentlemen, and &#8230;&#8221; &#8211; Change Your Gender Entry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How people treat each other is one thing &#8211; dehumanising bureaucratic institutions are something else entirely. Official correspondence is a very binary affair, even though Germany now officially recognises the third gender. This means that, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gesetze-im-internet.de\/pstg\/__22.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a722 PStG<\/a>, instead of a male or female gender, one can have a diverse gender entry, or even no gender at all, entered in birth certificates, identity cards, etc.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This change is not so easy for the authorities. The first question is often: &#8220;If you are not a Mr.\/Mrs. surname, what do I call you now? A nice idea is &#8220;Sehr geehrtes D [Last Name],&#8221; which is used by some Corona test centres, for example. Let&#8217;s suggest this to more institutions.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-238 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/vorbildergesucht.noblogs.org\/post\/2021\/08\/07\/sehr-geehrte-damenherren-geschlechtseintrag-aendern\/id\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1201\" height=\"828\" src=\"https:\/\/vorbildergesucht.noblogs.org\/files\/2021\/08\/id.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vorbildergesucht.noblogs.org\/files\/2021\/08\/id.jpg 1201w, https:\/\/vorbildergesucht.noblogs.org\/files\/2021\/08\/id-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vorbildergesucht.noblogs.org\/files\/2021\/08\/id-1024x706.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vorbildergesucht.noblogs.org\/files\/2021\/08\/id-768x529.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw \/ 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw \/ 12)), 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/vorbildergesucht.noblogs.org\/post\/2021\/08\/07\/sehr-geehrte-damenherren-geschlechtseintrag-aendern\/id2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1201\" height=\"797\" src=\"https:\/\/vorbildergesucht.noblogs.org\/files\/2021\/08\/id2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vorbildergesucht.noblogs.org\/files\/2021\/08\/id2.jpg 1201w, https:\/\/vorbildergesucht.noblogs.org\/files\/2021\/08\/id2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vorbildergesucht.noblogs.org\/files\/2021\/08\/id2-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vorbildergesucht.noblogs.org\/files\/2021\/08\/id2-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw \/ 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw \/ 12)), 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/vorbildergesucht.noblogs.org\/post\/2021\/08\/07\/sehr-geehrte-damenherren-geschlechtseintrag-aendern\/id3\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1172\" height=\"815\" src=\"https:\/\/vorbildergesucht.noblogs.org\/files\/2021\/08\/id3.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vorbildergesucht.noblogs.org\/files\/2021\/08\/id3.jpg 1172w, https:\/\/vorbildergesucht.noblogs.org\/files\/2021\/08\/id3-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vorbildergesucht.noblogs.org\/files\/2021\/08\/id3-1024x712.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vorbildergesucht.noblogs.org\/files\/2021\/08\/id3-768x534.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw \/ 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw \/ 12)), 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>There are expensive ways and slightly cheaper tricks to get one&#8217;s name and gender entry changed. For example, there is the way via \u00a745b PStG &#8211; if you&#8217;re interested, take a look at <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210510201446\/https:\/\/www.bundesverband-trans.de\/unsere-arbeit\/dritter-geschlechtseintrag\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210510201446\/https:\/\/www.bundesverband-trans.de\/unsere-arbeit\/dritter-geschlechtseintrag\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of this zine&#8217;s publication, the legal situation in Germany is still bad. The new Green-SPD-FDP government promised to make it easier to change your gender though. Soon things might look better.<\/p>\n<p>But perhaps it is better not to have any illusions that the bureaucracy takes us seriously as human beings. They also treat cis people bad, after all. In the everyday struggle with the job centre, health insurers, courts, student subsidies office, citizen&#8217;s registry, and all the categories they impose on us, it makes sense to make up a story and play a role &#8211; and it makes sense to clearly distinguish yourself from how you want to deal with people outside this struggle. Using a false name and gender when arguing with them can be a way of dealing with this.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-238 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/vorbildergesucht.noblogs.org\/post\/2021\/08\/07\/sehr-geehrte-damenherren-geschlechtseintrag-aendern\/restroom\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"287\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/vorbildergesucht.noblogs.org\/files\/2021\/08\/restroom.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vorbildergesucht.noblogs.org\/files\/2021\/08\/restroom.jpg 287w, https:\/\/vorbildergesucht.noblogs.org\/files\/2021\/08\/restroom-262x300.jpg 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw \/ 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw \/ 12)), 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/vorbildergesucht.noblogs.org\/post\/2021\/08\/07\/sehr-geehrte-damenherren-geschlechtseintrag-aendern\/mars-venus\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"649\" height=\"291\" src=\"https:\/\/vorbildergesucht.noblogs.org\/files\/2021\/08\/mars-venus.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vorbildergesucht.noblogs.org\/files\/2021\/08\/mars-venus.jpg 649w, https:\/\/vorbildergesucht.noblogs.org\/files\/2021\/08\/mars-venus-300x135.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw \/ 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw \/ 12)), 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How people treat each other is one thing &#8211; dehumanising bureaucratic institutions are something else entirely. Official correspondence is a very binary affair, even though Germany now officially recognises the third gender. This means that, according to \u00a722 PStG, instead of a male or female gender, one can have a diverse gender entry, or even &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vorbildergesucht.noblogs.org\/en-US\/post\/2022\/05\/14\/sehr-geehrte-damenherren-geschlechtseintrag-aendern\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Dear Ladies, Gentlemen, and &#8230;&#8221; &#8211; Change Your Gender Entry&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16840,"featured_media":88,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"https:\/\/vorbildergesucht.noblogs.org\/?p=87","activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,9],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-volume1","tag-outing","tag-tipps","en-US","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vorbildergesucht.noblogs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vorbildergesucht.noblogs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vorbildergesucht.noblogs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vorbildergesucht.noblogs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16840"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vorbildergesucht.noblogs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vorbildergesucht.noblogs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244,"href":"https:\/\/vorbildergesucht.noblogs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vorbildergesucht.noblogs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vorbildergesucht.noblogs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vorbildergesucht.noblogs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vorbildergesucht.noblogs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}