Germany has become the latest EU country to fall to the gendercrats. On Friday, a law was brought into force which invalidated sex with the stroke of a pen. The new Gender Self-Determination Act has opened the door to women-only changing rooms, refuges and sports to any male predator with the wit to fill in a form.

Feminists have not taken the news lying down. With impressive — and somewhat stereotypical — efficiency, a group of German women co-ordinated protests which were held yesterday outside embassies in nearly fifty countries. From Taipei to Washington protestors travelled often hundreds of miles to show solidarity and send a message to their own governments, many of which are considering similar gender self-identification laws.

At the protest in London, which was amongst the largest, wreaths were laid to commemorate women’s rights. Some women gave impassioned speeches, and the crowd joined in song to show sisterhood. But however peaceful the demonstrations might have been, this was no meek whisper of dissent, it was a rageful bellow of frustration from women across the globe. Governments ought to take note.

Rona Duwe is one member of a team of women behind the protests. She tells me that within Germany feminists have been lobbying for change, but somewhat to their surprise have found that “conservative politicians are more progressive than the so-called left parties.”

Duwe says the seeds of the idea for a global protest were sowed two years ago, when women’s rights activists gathered outside the Norwegian embassy in Berlin to show solidarity with Christina Ellingsen. Ellingsen is a feminist who found herself facing a custodial sentence for posting comments which questioned the identity of Christine Marie Jentoft, a man who identifies as both a lesbian and a mother. Amnesty International pushed for Ellingsen to be criminalised and accused her of hate. Thankfully, the charges were dropped but in the years since others in Norway have faced investigation by the police for suspected “transphobia”.

As Duwe notes, now:

When I was documenting the whole rally, I was overwhelmed by all the wonderful and lovely statements of women all over the world. Even JK Rowling showed her support. It’s such a soothing feeling to know: everywhere on this planet, there are women fighting this madness, we are starting to organise globally to oppose this and we can call for help and a wave of love and compassion.

While versions of gender self-identification are popping-up everywhere, the German Gender Self-Determination Act is such a spectacularly bonkers example of trans derangement syndrome it probably deserves its own compound noun (uberdickmenschgesellschaft perhaps?). The new law replaces the reality of biological sex with the subjective concept of “gender identity,” which has no clear definition. Anyone can change their gender once a year, every year. Babies are no longer registered by sex, but by categories which include “diverse gender” and “none”. Parents will be permitted to change their child’s sex at any time, and from the age of 14 teenagers will also be able to change their legal sex. Parental objections to a child’s stated gender identity can be overridden by the family court and children can be placed in state care where conflicts arise.

As UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls Reem Alsalem warned:

These challenges are further exacerbated by the Act’s ban on disclosing without consent, investigating, or inquiring about a person’s previously recorded legal sex and name. This would have a substantial impact on freedom of opinion and expression, as well as on freedom of thought, conscience and religion, respectively.

To bolster the new and unpopular law, cash is being pumped into education, with Queer Commissioner Sven Lehmann funding training schemes in schools and youth centres to promote affirmation and acceptance of trans identities.

Friday’s global protest was a reminder that German women are not alone

The strained health service in Germany is also falling into step; the government has committed to changing the law so that “the costs of gender reassignment treatments (are) covered in full by statutory health insurance”. With unpopular policies from soggy borders to fuzzy sex categories being pushed in the name of progress, German politicians are abandoning the reputation for intelligence and pragmatism that had been patiently built since the darkest days of the 20th Century.

Friday’s global protest was a reminder that German women are not alone. While the Bundestag has blithely waved away warnings, governments across the world will be watching, as will feminists. 

And make no mistake, what unfolds will be a horror story. The victims include the offspring of “transhausen” parents; a modern phenomenon whereby monstrous adults document the psychological and medical abuse of their children for media clicks on progressive social media platforms. Others wounded by this law will be the women raped in the spaces that were once single-sex. Survivors will then be further persecuted when they name their aggressors as men. This is not alarmist, nor an unfounded prediction, this is a depressing certainty based on the reality of what we know about human behaviour.

The fight against German self-identification has made it clear to women across the world that their safety, and indeed reality, is deemed less important than the fetishes of adult men and the fads of teenagers. It has revealed a truth hinted at by Virgina Woolf nearly ninety years ago:

 As a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.