Draft bill going around the Bundestag....basically would give all Germans age 14 and older....the right to select their gender. You'd just visit your local townhall....sign some forms, and you'd change your gender (and first name).
This is going forward and in the last couple of weeks...someone noted this other effort....having a 50-50 display of men and women in the Bundestag....could be affected by this....with political folks just showing up...noting they were female, and they'd get their seat in the Bundestag without any hassle.
I suspect a lot of women would be frustrated if the law was used in this way.
I noticed in some social commentary....folks were beginning to ask questions about the first name business....if suddenly you had 50,000 German youths walk in and rename themselves 'Elvis' (both as male and female)....would the system allow you to do that?
There is a banned name list....for example, you can't use what is considered a verb....as a proper name.
But I also went to the idea...just how many people will go and do the first-name change. I don't think the political folks spent a lot of time thinking how this would go.
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