US EditionGerman neo-Nazi uses gender law to enter women's prison
Marla-Svenja Liebich, a convicted right-wing extremist, exploited Germany's Self-Determination Act to change gender and transfer to a women's prison, igniting debate about security risks.
- On August 29, 2025, Marla-Svenja Liebich will arrive at Chemnitz women's prison to begin the 18-month sentence after legally registering as female in December, Liebech wrote, "On August 29, 2025, at 10 pm, I will arrive with my suitcases at Chemnitz Prison."
- Under the reform pushed by Olaf Scholz, officials now allow gender changes by simple administrative declaration, as Germany's Self-Determination Act abolished medical reports and judicial evaluations last year.
- Liebich's record shows Germany's domestic intelligence services in Saxony classify Marla-Svenja Liebich as a right-wing extremist with Nazi-style armband photos and a July 2023 conviction for incitement, defamation, and insult, alongside public attacks on the LGBTQ community.
- Women's groups and unions warned the law neglects prison security and may enable abuse, while Saxony prosecutors said Liebich will be interviewed and may be transferred if threatening inmates or order.
- The incident has become a focal point for critics who say the case exposes loopholes and risks a political 'own goal', while Olaf Scholz defended the reforms, saying, `We show respect to trans, intersex and non-binary people, without taking anything away from others.
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Sven Liebich, formerly known as the German neo-Nazi, now wears lacquered nails and gold jewellery and calls himself Marla Svenja. The beard continues to be proud of the controversial personality as a woman. In 2023, the trans-right-wing extreme sentenced queer persons to "parasites of society" – and should now be housed in a women's prison itself. She was on the right scene for decades. When it became clear that she had to go to prison, Liebich …
Sent to a women's prison for her crimes of conscience. "On August 29th at 10:00 PM I arrive at the prison with my suitcases."
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J.K. Rowling has launched her latest attack on the BBC over its reporting on the pronouns of Marla-Svenja Liebich, a far-right extremist who identified as a woman last December. BBC News carried a report about Liebich in which it used she/her pronouns for the criminal, who has received permission to serve a prison sentence in a German women’s jail after being convicted of extreme right incitement to hatred, defamation, and insult. Liebich ch…
The convicted Sven Liebich changed his gender and now comes to a women's prison. This tests the limits of the self-determination law of the traffic lights. The Greens weather abuse.
Sentenced in July 2023 by the court of Halle (Saxony-Anhalt) to eighteen months in prison for incitement to hatred, defamation and insults, Sven Liebich is a figure of the German conservative right, known for his advocacy within the neo-Nazi group of Blood & Honor and for organizing ultra-nationalist rallies, tells us the German media Der Spiegel. At the end of 2024, he made use of the new law on gender self-determination which entered into forc…
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