US EditionGerman Neo-Nazi Heads for Women's Jail After Gender Change
The Self-Determination Act allows adults to change gender without medical proof; the 54-year-old neo-Nazi begins an 18-month sentence for racial hatred offences.
- On Friday, Marla-Svenja Liebich, 54, is set to begin an 18-month sentence at Chemnitz prison for racial hatred offences after legally changing gender under Germany's Self-Determination Act.
- The Self-Determination Act, passed last year, allows any adult to change their name and gender by simple application without medical proof, and LGBTQ groups hailed it as historic.
- Officials noted that placement decisions rest on the convict's registered gender and place of residence, with individual reviews on admission, while critics warned the law may be abused, and family affairs minister Karin Prien said it "contains weaknesses that could encourage targeted abuse."
- Officials said they would review the law as Germany's new coalition government pledged to examine the Self-Determination Act and Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt called for clearer rules against abuse.
- The case underscores long-standing extremist ties, as Marla-Svenja Liebich was a Blood and Honour member and Felix Klein said her Judaism claim mocks all faiths.
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Marla-Svenja Liebich, sentenced in 2023, asked to change his gender with the civil state after the adoption, at the end of 2024, of the "self-determination law". His case illustrates, for the detractors of the law, his permissive side.
A German extreme-right activist, having changed her gender, provokes a controversy by fleeing abroad to escape her prison sentence New twist of a case that provoked
Sven Liebich had been sentenced to 18 months in prison for "incitement to hatred", before changing his gender through a law passed in 2024. He had asked to be locked up in a female-only prison, but fled before he was imprisoned.
‘Trans’ neo-Nazi shakes up gender debate in Germany
A fierce debate has erupted in Germany around a neo-Nazi provocateur who was ordered to serve time in a women's prison after legally changing gender, and has now not shown up to serve the sentence. Marla-Svenja Liebich, 54, was until recently a man who went by the name of Sven. Liebich was a high-profile figure
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