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State capital Stuttgart

Equal opportunities

Diversity of gender

Stuttgart is a cosmopolitan metropolis with a diverse urban society. The LGBTIQ+ communities are an important part of this. The state capital develops and promotes a wide range of gender-sensitive services as part of its equal opportunities policy.

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Making the concerns and organizations of the rainbow communities in the state capital more visible for more acceptance and equal opportunities is a central concern of the city administration. (symbolic image)

Life is colorful - so is Stuttgart!

The city of Stuttgart offers and bundles counseling services on the topic of “sexual orientation and gender diversity”. Here you will find a selection of contact points and contact options.

The LSBTIQ+ Stuttgart working group

The LGBTIQ+ working group of the state capital Stuttgart is a central networking and working committee in which measures for more acceptance, social respect and participation of all people, regardless of sexual and gender identity, are developed.

Law on self-determination with regard to gender entry (SBGG)

SBGG: Flyer with information on the Self-Determination Act.

The “Act on Self-Determination with regard to Gender Registration” - or “Self-Determination Act” (SBGG) for short - is intended to enable trans*, intersex and non-binary people to have their name and civil status changed in accordance with their gender if the gender registration made after birth does not correspond to their own gender.

Until now, the official change of civil status and name has been carried out in accordance with the “Transsexuals Act” (TSG), which has been in force since 1981. This law was associated with high bureaucratic hurdles (two psychological assessments and court proceedings), was very lengthy and also expensive. For those affected, this procedure was associated with great suffering.

There are already several countries around the world with similar legal bases. Argentina is the first country in which it has been possible to change one’s name and civil status by self-declaration since 2012. Other countries include Chile, Malta, Denmark, Luxembourg, Belgium, Ireland, Portugal, Iceland, New Zealand, Norway, Uruguay, Switzerland, Spain and Finland.

What does gender identity mean?

The term “gender identity” expresses the gender with which a person identifies. A person’s gender identity does not have to correspond to the gender assigned at birth. There are a variety of gender identities that go beyond the traditional understanding of clearly “male” and “female”, including

trans* / cis
Trans* is the term used to describe people who do not or do not sufficiently identify with the gender assigned to them at birth. Assigned gender and gender identity are therefore not congruent. The counterpart to “trans*” is “cis”. A person who identifies with their sex assigned at birth is cis.

non-binary
People who do not identify exclusively as male or female, who do not identify with the binary gender system or for whom the category “gender” has no meaning, describe themselves as non-binary.

intersex/endosex
People whose physical, chromosomal, genetic and/or hormonal sex characteristics do not correspond to the medical/social expectations of clearly male or female are described as intersex. In the case of intersex people, these are ambiguous and equivocal.

People whose sexual characteristics clearly correspond to the medical/social expectations of female or male are referred to as endosexual.

Advice and contact points in relation to the SBGG in Stuttgart

Gender-sensitive work

Selection of projects and cooperations

An overview of current municipal collaborations and funded projects in the LGBTIQ+ communities can be found here.

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  • OB-CG
  • City of Stuttgart
  • City of Stuttgart
  • Center Weissenburg e. V.
  • OB-CG
  • Equal Opportunities Department
  • Thomas Niedermüller/City of Stuttgart
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  • Kaarina Bauer, City of Stuttgart