Photograph: Michaela Stache/ AFP/ Getty ImagesA German police officer is facing charges of attempted fraud for altering her gender from male to female in official records, allegedly to expedite her promotion through the ranks. The unnamed Düsseldorf officer in her 30s altered her gender from man to woman last May in line with a new “self-determination” regulation passed by the last federal government. The law came into effect a year ago to assist transgender, intersex and non-binary people to change their gender and name entry in official records and documents. However this is not the first time an applicant has been accused of exploiting the gender self-determination law. For Christoph Arnold, lawyer for the Düsseldorf police officer, her employer’s case is doomed to fail.
