A Malicious Male Predator Incarcerated in a Women's Prison

"Whether the change is serious is doubtful."

"Liebich has been known for years for her right-wing extremist views and has also made queerphobic statements in the past."

"[It was likely that Liebich] made the change of civil status in an abusive manner in order to provoke and embarrass the state." 

Der Spiegel

 

"The BBC calls a male neo-Nazi ‘she’, because their absolutist belief in gender identity ideology means any man – rapist, voyeur, terrorist, murderer or paedophile – must be described as a woman the moment he says he’s one." 

J.K. Rowling

 

"Liebich's case has been used to further the hateful discourse [that characterized the debate around the bill in the Bundestag]."

"The Self-Determination Act is intended to strengthen the human rights of trans and non-binary persons and protect their fundamental rights."

"Instead, this individual case ridicules gender self-determination or declares it a danger. This jeopardizes democracy."

Theresa Richarz, legal expert, Germany's Federation for Queer Diversity (LSVD)  

Picture alliance/dpa | Sebastian Willnow

 

The not-so-subtle subterfuge by male criminals to evade prosecution, or to simply advantage themselves by posing -- however absurdly -- as female to be enabled to enter women-only public washrooms, change rooms, sport competitions, beauty pageants, and prisons, has become a fairly universal phenomenon in a 'progressive' world of minority gender dysphoric groups aggressively asserting their rights to full respect and acknowledgement in a gender of their choosing. Civil society, leery of being declared transphobic has bowed to the demands of subgroups within the wider LGBTQ-2 community.

 

In Germany, a man by the name of Sven Liebich, known for his racist beliefs was sentenced to 18 months without parole in July of 2023, in consequence of  his being found guilty of incitement to hatred, defamation and insult. This neo-Nazi committed his crimes as an identifiable male, and since his sentencing, has 'legally' altered his biological gender from male to female. And he aims now to serve that sentence in his criminal conviction, in a women's prison. 

"This is an example of the very simple abuse of the self-determination law."

"We now need a debate about how to reinstate clear rules against the abuse of changes of gender."

"The judiciary, the public, and politicians are being fooled here because the Self-Determination Act provides the opportunity for this."

German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt  

Chemnitz women's prison

Germany's revised Self Determination Act, newly-enacted, was the enabling legislation for Sven Liebich to become Maria-Svenja Liebich, with full recognition under the law. Lipstick carefully applied under a handlebar moustache does not a woman make of a man. It does, however, create no end of controversy, when a law is carelessly constructed in its eagerness to please a vocal, demanding minority, delusional on biological verities to the extent they can feel confident in re-scripting nature's biological verities.

 

The law that guarantees an individual's right to alter their gender, places women's rights in jeopardy. As an active member since the 1990s of far-right extremism in Germany, this man was declared as a "right wing extremist" with statewide and national activity background, once a leading figure in the neo-Nazi "Blood & Honor" network, according to Saxony-Anhalt's intelligence agency. 

"Anyone who follows the reporting on neo-Nazi Sven Liebich can only come to one conclusion: The traffic-light coalition government has managed, by law, to force almost the entire German media landscape to tell untruths and make grotesquely false claims."

"Sven Liebich is not a woman."

Journalist Julian Reichelt

Liebich has now declared himself to be a devout Jew, and while in prison in the city of Chemnitz, starting on Friday, has demanded he be served kosher meals and rabbinical supervision in prison. His physical male visage with short dark hair and greying stubble is now enhanced with sunglasses, gold earrings, and red lipstick under his grey handlebar moustache. 

 

Of the law that came into force in November, while stating that this case "clearly demonstrates that the Self-Determination Act in its current form, contains weaknesses that could encourage targeted abuse", Family Affairs Minister Karin Prien added that safeguarding gender self-determination remains "right and important".  

 

The intention of  striking the law was so that the process for trans, intersex and nonbinary individuals could be eased in changing gender entries without having to undergo psychiatric assessment. When this man proposing himself to be a woman, arrives at the Chemnitz prison on August 29, he will be undergoing a series of questioning to determine his suitability to remain there for the duration of his sentencing. 

 

Women inmates can only hope and pray for sanity to prevail. 

 

Marla-Svenja Liebich, formerly Sven, was photographed wearing a Nazi-style uniform at rallies Credit: Sebastian Willnow