The District Court of the German city of Frankfurt ruled that the words "Mr." and "mrs." are discriminatory.
The verdict recognizing sexual deviations, the court issued after the complaint of a certain resident of Frankfurt am Main, who could not buy a train ticket, because on the website of Deutsche Bahn there are only two options-Herr and Frau. A citizen who positions his "gender identity" as "non-binary" sued the German Railway, and a judge upheld the claim.
According to the judge, the state-owned company violated the client's right to privacy.
"The general consensus is that the form of address is central to the manifestation of a particular gender identity, "the judge said, calling on companies to offer a"gender-neutral option."
However, the right to monetary compensation to the plaintiff was denied. In turn, Deutsche Bahn said that the transition to a gender-neutral form of treatment takes a very long time.
Earlier, EADaily reported that in 2019, the City Council of Hanover adopted "Recommendations for the introduction of a gender-neutral official business language", which introduce the so-called gender asterisk (*), thereby ignoring the gender of a person. And then the Minister of Family Affairs of Germany Francisca Giffay made a proposal to remove the words "father" and "mother" from all official forms, replacing them with "parent-1" and "parent-2". The initiative was criticized only by the Alternative for Germany party. A source: EurAsiaDaily