#self determination act

[ivycopper]

So as of this month, trans ppl in Germany can finally change their name and gender marker without a court case and without having to pay 3k in fees. My local town hall is celebrating by flying the trans flag. Couldn't believe my eyes when I saw it!

As a history nerd, the funniest and best thing abt this is that the actual building itself was built by the nazis and this really is a giant fuck you to them.

[ivycopper]

It's up to 60€ in some places, plus the cost of new ID/passport/certificates etc.

But yes! Progress!

Today, the Self-Determination Act comes into force in Germany. Trans and intersex people can now submit an application to the registry office to change their name and gender marker and then have the change carried out after a three-month waiting period for around €35 (that is, if they get an appointment at the registry office...). This means that trans people no longer have to go through an expensive and humiliating court proceeding and intersex people no longer have to provide medical proof of their intersexuality. The law was passed after a long back and forth and it is far from ideal, but it is still progress.

[marsreds]

something something mel's makeup as the tears she won't let fall.

something something the gold as noxus, the true source of her love and loss and what's causing them and why they'll never flow.

something something mel was shaped by noxus and she carries it on her skin like armor, like a brand.

something something having her sorrow front and center, outright glowing (especially when they put her in the shadows, as they liked to do) yet never allowing anyone to see it for what it is.

something something mel knowing where she's from and what made her into what she is, yet deciding to forge her own path.

until she can't anymore.

[nshi-ao3]

I, uh, accidentally deleted the ask, but-- I got asked if I could draw a little Akechi... and I do need to test out my new tablet, so... Here you go??!

(It's... a reference to this. Make of it what you will??)

[doublel27]

So, because I am myself a neurodivergent completist, I needed to watch Anti-Reset before I could start Eternal Butler, and I am so glad I did.

Anti-Reset told the story of a man falling in love with an AI biomechanical humanoid, but was really an autistic 4 autistic love story. The story of a human who has never really fit into humanity. Who is obsessed with history and how it shifts but doesn’t feel a part of it really. Whose family tells him he’s broken and emotionally stunted and disturbed. Which is why his Uncle sends him Immortal 9, to fix his emotional problems. And Immortal 9 does but not the way his uncle expects. Because Immortal 9 and Yi Ping are able to connect precisely because they see and approach the world in similar ways. They both analyze and study humanity to try and unpack what’s happening to them. They both love rules and order. They explore the world together as an adventure they’re trying out. While Yi Ping becomes more social somewhat through Immortal 9’s relationship, he remains most comfortable interacting and spending time with Immortal 9.

There’s a long-term study on empathy in the autistic community that’s come up with the concept of the empathy paradox. The empathy paradox explains that it’s not that the autistic community lacks empathy as was long posited. Instead, they uncovered that autistic people show deep empathy and connection with other autistic people, and non-autistic people show the same “lack of empathy” toward autistic people that the psychological community long claimed autistic people held toward non-autistic people. The underlying commonality that was found is that communication between people with the same neurotype is much easier than communication between two people with different neurotypes. Yi Ping and Immortal 9 fall in love precisely because they communicate in ways that make a lot of sense to each other. Immortal 9 can push Yi Ping because the way he explains his reasoning and what he wants for Yi Ping makes sense to Yi Ping. Similarly, because Yi Ping recognizes his own humanity and reasoning in Immortal 9, he insists on treating him with great dignity and empathy, insisting he have his own bedroom, never actually signing a contract of ownership, insisting that Immortal 9 should make his own wants and desires known.

And the thesis of the show asks if either of them are broken and if broken things should be fixed or thrown away. The question Yi Ping’s uncle basically posits at the height of the conflict is if Yi Ping’s emotional disturbance is so great that nothing can fix it, and if Immortal 9 has made it impossible to reset him if he is beyond saving. It takes quite awhile for uncle to see the humanity in either his nephew or his creation. There’s also the question of how long either of their devotion will last, especially as they are eventually replaced through repairs or human cellular decay and regeneration. We are all a Ship of Thebes in a way. Are we the same ship?

And now the sequel, Eternal Butler, we are dealing with the CPTSD of a troubled young man and the question of both human and AI biomechanoid’s right to self determination. Immortal 4 is diving into the question of inalienable rights that Immortal 9’s story left us grappling with. Did Immortal 9 genuinely fall in love with Yi Ping or because he was programmed as a emotional repair android, was he coded to love anyone who came across his path? Was his going against the commands in his system to record memories and make them undeletable a sign of his self-determination or a natural conflict in his programming allowed him to over ride that other command?

Immortal 4 is taking some pretty serious hits for Immortal 9’s defection, but they’re still working together. Immortal 4 who was not programmed for emotions is leaning into them at Immortal 9’s urging. And he is also taking his own beliefs of AI’s right to self-determination even if society tells them they’re just products, and trying to make sure Luo Bushi understand that the beauty of humans is that they are unique and are in charge of their own destiny.

Luo Bushi is so deep in his own personal tragedy and sees Immortal 4 as just like everyone else, someone who will eventually abandon him.

And you know, if the moral questions of right to self determination and abandonment weren’t enough, the daddy/brat vibes of Immortal 4/Luo Bushi are immaculate.

Anyway, I am here for the ride.

[coochiequeens]

“Section 183 of the Criminal Code only applies to men. If a man uses self-ID to become a woman, he can no longer commit a criminal offense for exhibitionism.” - criminal defense attorney Udo Vetter

If a community is truly oppressed I would think that they would be opposed to any law that would give perverts a legal loophole in their name. But then I've been saying for years that the TQ+ community needs to clean house.

By Marielena Meder September 19, 2024

A trans-identified male from Troisdorf, Germany, is facing charges after attacking multiple women in two disturbing incidents involving knives and exhibitionism. But a debate is now raging in court as legal experts weigh whether the man, who identifies as a “woman,” can be charged with exposing his penis, a crime only males can be prosecuted for.

The man, 56, is scheduled to stand trial in Bonn for threats and grievous bodily harm related to two incidents, one from 2021 and one from 2022. Due to Germany’s strict privacy laws, the man’s full name has not been released, but he will be referred to as “Klaus” for the purposes of this article.

In August of 2021, Klaus followed a woman home and attacked her while she was at her front door. Klaus is alleged to have grabbed her from behind and held a knife to her throat while he wrangled her boots off. The woman fought back, suffering cuts to her neck and hands, and was able to send her attacker fleeing thanks to her loud cries for help. Klaus was wearing women’s clothes at the time of the attack, and is said to be a women’s shoe fetishist.

The next year, in December, Klaus exposed his penis to two women on a train. The regional court in Bonn must now decide whether this was a sexual offense, as Section 183 of the German Criminal Code only imposes a fine or a prison sentence to men for exhibitionistic acts. Because Klaus is legally considered “female,” he may avoid this charge entirely.

The uncertainty is the result of Germany’s recently-passed gender self-identification law, which is considered by many to be the most relaxed legislation of its kind in the world. In 2022, well-known criminal defense attorney Udo Vetter warned about the impact the law would have on criminal proceedings, writing on social media that: “Section 183 of the Criminal Code only applies to men. If a man uses self-ID to become a woman, he can no longer commit a criminal offense for exhibitionism.” 

The verdict on whether Klaus can also be convicted of exhibitionism is expected within the next two months.

Klaus has an extensive criminal history stretching back years. According to the General-Anzeiger, which referred to Klaus as a “woman,” a reading of his past criminal record took the court over two hours.

In October of 2008, Klaus attacked a 52-year-old woman, violently pulling her to the ground and sitting on her so he could rip her boots off her legs. According to a news article on the incident, Klaus admitted to becoming aroused when he put the boots on after fleeing to a nearby forest. During the subsequent police search, investigators found a whole collection of women’s boots at his home. 

The next year, he attacked a 54-year-old woman who was heading home from carnival celebrations dressed as a female pirate in order to steal her boots. When she fought back, he strangled her, cut her face with a knife, bruised her upper body, and fled. He claimed at the time that he had only been able to commit the assault because he had been allowed to walk free from his 2008 crime.

Klaus was ultimately sentenced to two years and four months in prison after being convicted of aggravated extortion and grievous bodily harm. At the time, the court also recommended he be confined to a permanent placement in a psychiatric institution after hearing expert testimony from a psychiatrist who labeled him dangerous and at risk of escalating his behavior to more serious acts of violence.

On the witness stand, Klaus reported that his obsession with women’s footwear had started with his mother’s clothes, and, when he was just 19 years old, he attacked a woman to steal her boots. His parents are said to have sent him to therapy in vain. 

His stay in the psychiatric clinic lasted around 7 years and, while confined to the facility for his criminal convictions, Klaus changed his legal sex and received breast implants. Disturbingly, due to the laws in place at the time, Klaus would have had to receive the approval of two mental health professionals to proceed with his legal sex change.

Germany’s new Self-Determination Act (SBGG) comes into effect in November. The law, which was met by overwhelming backlash from women’s rights campaigners, established “gender identity” as a protected characteristic and allows parents to change the sex marker on their children’s documents from birth. The SBGG also creates the potential for citizens to be fined up to €10,000 (approx. $11,500 USD) for revealing a person’s given name and birth sex without their permission – an action that trans activists staunchly oppose and refer to as ‘deadnaming.’

The SBGG allows individuals to change their legal sex and name without any diagnosis of gender dysphoria, and does not discriminate against those with criminal records. Even convicted sex offenders such as rapists, pedophiles, exhibitionists and voyeurs can easily change their legal sex and first name at a registry office. 

[mariocki]

The Naked Kiss (1964)

"You know what's different about the first night? Nothing. Nothing... except it lasts forever, that's all. You'll be sleeping on the skin of a nightmare for the rest of your life."

[fandommothfreak]

Isha doesn't speak aloud. Everyone that Jinx lost before her became a voice in her head. That won't happen with Isha. All she'll have is her quiet ghost. And I've gotta wonder if the silence will be more or less painful.

[creativity-deficient]

Soooo what are y’all’s hcs on the Tweak family 🤔🤔🤔

[ctl-yuejie]

these moments™️ in the Only Friends Trailer

[duckiemimi]

this is useful context for how the former jujutsu system worked, and how it affected its sorcerers and their individual characterizations, i think. again, cultural context and setting matter a lot.

[istherewifiinhell]

wait okay. here.

#ITS REALLY the uh. when there isnt the Larger than life gay affect going along so that the gayness like. coasts. no matter the writer.#im making a triangle chart in my head and the 3 corners are spock. garak. and quark. i think. does that make sense

[ID: Triangle chart with labeled points, and a trek character in each point. "Gay acting - Garak", "Gay Themes - Spock", "Gay (Comedic) - Quark" END]

DOES THAT MAKE SENSE?

[righteousruin]

Oh Christ,

Steadfast belief in restorative justice is psychosis, Grant??

[lucky-clover-gazette]

i removed the "could be platonic or romantic" tag from the adaptation fic bc these bitches are gay as hell and it's way too interesting a dynamic to ignore

[liesmyth]

I was scrolling a ways back in your Wake tag and I saw folks pondering her coming back in Alecto & I just wanted to state on the record that if that happens im going to lose my mind COMPLETELY. Wake being known to us 99% second-hand is the only insulating me from a FULL homosexual mental breakdown over her. If she came back and said a single word on screen I’d start screaming and I wouldn’t stop. I love unhinged violent middle-aged women with no moral compasses and if TLT’s quotient goes up by ONE more then I’m going to snap and never recover. I’ll drop out of university. I’ll become a fire juggler. I’ll get arrested driving 210 on the interstate. I can barely fucking take Wake as a revenant martyr who uttered three sentences and a handful of death threats on camera and if we get anything more than that I am going to completely lose it & become a severe and present threat to public safety. And it’ll be worth it.

Anyways I don’t think she’ll come back but Christ alive I hope she does.

I hope she doesn't because IDK if I could handle Wake AND Alecto within the same book without my brain fully melting but YES THIS. That woman is dangerous. She WILL fuck you up. She cares about ONE thing (revenge) and she doesn't care if she leaves a body count behind. She gave birth alone in a shuttle and was fully prepared to land it on Pluto and kill God the next day. She will remember the taste of Pyrrha's mouth in heaven and she hopes Pyrrha will remember hers when she roasts down in hell. She'll kill G1deon but make it quick. She has killed SO many necromancers by eye gouging. She said when rarely we watch ourselves burn we become heroes. She named herself after a Shakespeare quote and an Eminem song. She shot Mercy but recognised her daughter and wished her Goodbye. I'm insane about it

also I love wake in this fic

[thisismycorneroftheinternet]

I realize that to others, having recurrent suicidal thoughts and other violent intrusive thoughts, having several coping mechanisms that are in some way or another self-harm and dangerous habits, having difficult to control memory flashbacks out of the blue that ruin your entire mood and bring you down, and having a generally almost constant level of demotivation and negativeness, derealization and depersonalization, and sheer panicked internal anxiety and paranoia that can go overboard at any second, are not normal. But like, that's been most of my life since I was 13ish, very few times I have not felt this way. I've just learned to carry on and not talk too much about it, because it scandalizes people to hear that sort of stuff, and that means they turn against you and abandon you, because they think I am either too much to handle or am acting out too much.