In the future, it could become a criminal offence to insist that a father is a man and a mother is a woman. By exercising the right to freedom of expression and questioning the existence of more than fifty genders may also constitute hate speech.

As the year draws to a close, Sven Lehmann has come up with some audacious plans. Mr Lehmann’s job as government commissioner for queer people is to pave the way for diversity and the gender lobby in Germany from 2022, and now he wants to see the term „queer” included in the criminal code. This move would give queer people special, extra protections under the law.

„However, our legal system does not recognise „anti-queer violence”, only violence against people. For good reason, the system does not distinguish between various victim groups by value. Nevertheless, the queer commissioner is working to ensure that his favourite minority has special protection under the law,”

Mariana Harder-Kuhnel, family affairs spokesperson for the right-wing opposition party Alternative for Germany (AfD), said. If Lehmann’s proposals are accepted, it would not be unthinkable in the future for it to be considered a crime for someone – exercising their right to express their opinion – to question the existence of more than fifty different genders. It could also become a criminal offence for someone to maintain that a family consists of a male father, a female mother and children. It seems that it is no longer just children and traditions that need to be protected from the gender lobby in Germany, but also the German legal system, the AfD politician pointed out, emphasizing that

„the AfD parliamentary group will consistently oppose this policy of the radical left, because our country’s constitution still states that all people are equal before the law”.

The government commissioner wants to overturn this and give queer people additional rights. He also wants to ensure that if the victim of a crime happens to be a queer person, the perpetrator receive a harsher sentence.

This is not the first time that Mr Lehmann has come up with some shocking plans. As reported by V4NA, he also suggested that the government should set up a body to make recommendations to the civil service on various aspects of using „gender-equal language”. Another of his proposals states:

„Family law must also be updated and adapted to social reality, because families are diverse and do not always consist of mother, father and child.”

At that time, Mr Lehmann also spoke of his intention to transform education. Among his plans were including sexual and gender diversity instruction for preschool children.

„It is essential that more education and more information about diversity is introduced into kindergartens, schools and extra-curricular youth work. It is important to create an atmosphere in these facilities where diversity is obvious. This requires well-informed education professionals,”

Sven Lehmann, who has lived as a homosexual for 20 years, said in an interview. On another occasion, he said that the law on transgenderism should be completely revised, the current legislation should be scrapped and gender reassignment should be made as easy as possible. Mr Lehmann believes that transsexuality has not become a trend, despite the fact that the number of people in the Western world who identify as transsexual has increased by about 4,000 per cent in recent years.

Recently, however, the social democrats have also joined the non-binary ranks. The party’s „queer” working group in Berlin’s Tempelhof-Schoneberg district called on the national party representation to support a proposal on expanding the scope of the self-determination law. According to the SPD’s proposal, minors would be allowed to decide about their gender without their parents’ consent.

At the end of June, the federal government agreed to rescind the law on transgenderism and replace it with a „modern self-determination law”. It will allow transsexuals to change their first name and gender in identity documents more easily. A declaration made before a civil registrar is sufficient for the regulation to be applicable. In the past, an expert opinion was also needed to effect these changes, but today such a requirement no longer exists.

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However, this was not enough for the working group of the leftist party. They also wanted to allow children as young as 7 to be able to make a statement about changing their name and sex in documents. Children are overly dependent on their parents regarding this issue, they argued.