caa a22 4500 477117694 CHVBK 20180405111627.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF02437583 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF02437583 Transsexualism in Germany: Empirical data on epidemiology and application of the German Transsexuals' Act during its first ten years [Elektronische Daten] [Cordula Weitze, Susanne Osburg] In light of possible emulation of the German Transsexuals' Act (TSG) in discussions taking place on future legislation in other states, on the 10th anniversary of the German TSG, we review the application of this law, as well as epidemiological data arising from its use. From 1981 to 1990, 1422 judicial decisions were rendered in Germany on this basis: 683 of them related to the so-called "small solution” (change of first name), and 733 involved what is termed the "major solution” (legal change of sex status). The frequency of transsexual applications over these 10 years lay between 2.1 and 2.4 per 100,000 German adult population. The average age was 33. Only 3.6% and 10.9% of the small and major applications, respectively, were rejected by courts. The sex ratio was 2.3:1 in favor of male-to-female transsexuals. Data revealed no significant trend over the years among the prevailing practices of adjudication, but evidence does exist that the German courts apply the law differently on a regional basis. Over the 10-year period, only six persons requested to have their names changed back again and only one to be reassigned to the former legal sex classification. Those who change their first names in the sense of a tentative accustomizing process waited an average of 2 years before changing their gender. Between 20 and 30% apparently went no further than the so-called "small solution”. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1996 transsexual nationallicence gender identity disorder nationallicence sex reassignment nationallicence legal sex nationallicence Weitze Cordula Institut für forensische Psychiatrie, Freie Universität Berlin, Limonenstrasse 27, 12203, Berlin, Germany aut Osburg Susanne Institut für forensische Psychiatrie, Freie Universität Berlin, Limonenstrasse 27, 12203, Berlin, Germany aut Archives of Sexual Behavior Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 25/4(1996-08-01), 409-425 0004-0002 25:4<409 1996 25 10508 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02437583 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02437583 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Weitze Cordula Institut für forensische Psychiatrie, Freie Universität Berlin, Limonenstrasse 27, 12203, Berlin, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Osburg Susanne Institut für forensische Psychiatrie, Freie Universität Berlin, Limonenstrasse 27, 12203, Berlin, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Archives of Sexual Behavior Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 25/4(1996-08-01), 409-425 0004-0002 25:4<409 1996 25 10508 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer