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SOUNDBITE (German) Lona Guenther, transgender activist:\r\n\"The fight for the self-determination law is definitely not over, it continues, especially the fight for trans healthcare but also for trans refugees, for whom there are also many deteriorations in the self-determination law and also the fight against trans women's compulsory military service will have to be continued. As a queer community, we will keep at it.\"\r\n7. Rainbow flags in front of Parliament building\r\nSTORYLINE:\r\nGerman lawmakers on Friday approved legislation that will make it easier for transgender, intersex and nonbinary people to change their name and gender in official records.\r\n\r\nThe self-determination law, one of several social reforms that Chancellor Olaf Scholz's liberal-leaning coalition government pledged when it took office in late 2021, will take effect on Nov. 1.\r\n\r\nIt will allow adults to change their first name and legal gender at registry offices without further formalities. \r\n\r\nThey will have to notify the office three months before making the change.\r\n\r\nThe existing transsexual law, which dates back four decades, requires individuals who want to change gender on official documents to first obtain assessments from two experts sufficiently familiar with the particular problems of transsexualism and then a court decision. \r\n\r\nSince that law was drawn up, Germanys top court has struck down other provisions that required transgender people to get divorced and sterilized, and to undergo gender-transition surgery.\r\n\r\nThe new legislation focuses on individuals legal identities. \r\n\r\nIt does not involve any revisions to Germanys rules for gender-transition surgery.\r\n\r\nThe new rules allow minors 14 years and older to change their name and legal gender with approval from their parents or guardians; if they dont agree, teenagers could ask a family court to overrule them.\r\n\r\nIn the case of children younger than 14, parents or guardians would have to make registry office applications on their behalf. \r\n\r\nAfter a formal change of name and gender takes effect, no further changes would be allowed for a year. \r\n\r\nThe new legislation provides for operators of, for example, gyms and changing rooms for women to continue to decide who has access.\r\n\r\nNyke Slawik, one of two transgender women who were elected as lawmakers in 2021, said ahead of the vote in parliament's 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