Today’s news told in names of two Czech companies.
Unfortunately, it took backlash from EU to turn the needle but they did it. Now one “only” needs 2 doctors’ recommendation, 1 year testing period, and then 2 more notes from doctors.

Transcript

4 panels 2x2:

pride month is over

[picture of entrance to Proficis, a small printer repair company]

but you no longer need to get castrated to change your official gender

[picture of trailer with ☺️Happy Trans CZ s.r.o., a transport company]

  • ...m...@ttrpg.networkEnglish
    16·
    4 days ago

    …not until they file two doctors’ recommendations, a one-year waiting period, and two more notes from doctors…

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgOPEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      Yup, the name change is tied to gender: you can’t have a traditional Czech female name as an official male and vice versa, and there are no gender-neutral ones (our language is very gendered and nobody has developed a neutral framework that more than a handful of people would use). Transgender people would try to register diminutives Péťa (Petr/Petra) or Míša (Micha(e)l/Michaela) but end up needing an extra psychologist’s note for them. Only foreign gender-neutral diminutives such as Alex (Alexander/Alexandra) that had a history of being registered by either gender would be easy to obtain.

      It’s still fucked up that the year is meant to “test-drive” the gender but one still has to use their AGAB-gendered name in all but informal communications. And wigs are forbidden on ID card photos, of course.