According to the Transsexual Act (TSG) of 1981, trans* people can change their gender under the German Civil Status Law I.e., the information in the birth certificate and official documents, as well as their name, if the prerequisites are met. For this purpose, trans* people must submit an application stating that, due to being trans*, they do not identify with the gender they were assigned with at the gender entry and have been following the inner compulsion to live accordingly to their gender identity. Furthermore, it must be assumed that the sense of belonging to this gender will no longer change. In order to assess those circumstances, the competent court obtains two reports.

Although the Federal Constitutional Court proposed the deletion of the gender entry under civil law status to the legislation in its judgment in 2017, this was rejected.