Berlin is attracting LGBTQI people from all over the world, including many trans people. And it's not the first time: trans history was written here 100 years ago! Arts.21 takes a look at the story of transgender people in Berlin from then to now.
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The San Francisco LGBTQ immigration attorney introduced the channel, telling his own immigration story, his pathway to becoming a United States citizen, and working as a human rights activist.
Sengun, 36, plans to highlight LGBTQ issues around the world. I won t be scared to discuss human rights abuses and which governments are oppressing different minorities, including LGBTQ people, he said.
He also said in the video that he will focus on immigrants who have found success in the U.S. and nonprofit organizations life-saving work.
Sengun left Turkey, his home country, for the U.S. more than a decade ago.
A participant holds a sign saying Man, woman, human at a Christopher Street parade in Hamburg on August 1, 2020. (MORRIS MAC MATZEN/AFP via Getty Images)
Trans activists in Germany want the “archaic” gender-recognition law to be reformed so that legal gender can be changed by a process of self-declaration.
The current process, in place for 40 years, sees trans people in Germany forced into a lengthy, expensive and bureaucratic process to change their legal gender and name, with campaigners saying reform is long overdue.
Trans activist Felicia Rolletschke, 26, began changing her legal name and gender in 2015 – the process took three years in total and cost her several thousand euros.
Germany s Transgender Law seen as archaic, degrading
Trans people in Germany are subjected to a long, expensive assessment process to change their legal gender. A new self-determination law would reform this and activists say it s long overdue.
Felicia Rolletschke is a trans activist, workshop leader and public speaker Degrading, expensive and illogical that is how one trans person described her experience of legally changing her gender in Germany.
Felicia Rolletschke is one of many activists who is fighting for a reform to the so-called Transsexual Law, which determines the legal process for trans people to change their gender and name in Germany. By the beginning of 2021, the law will have been in place for 40 years a time frame in which many countries around the world have seen great upheaval in their legislation around trans rights.