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== Examples for double standards related to [[HGM]] ==
=== [[Bündnis 90/Die Grünen]] ======= GREENS parliamentary group ====In 2020, the [[GREENS]] parliamentary group, led by MdB Sven Lehmann, introduced a draft law for a so-called ''Self-Determination Act''<ref>{{REFdocument |url=https://www.sven-lehmann.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/GE-Selbstbestimmungsgesetz.pdf |title=GE-Selbstbestimmungsgesetz-1.pdf |last=Lehmann |first=Sven |publisher=[[GREENS]] parliamentary group |format=PDF |date=2020-06 |accessdate=2020-06-04}}</ref> that is intended to strengthen the rights of intersex/transsexuals. Among other things, it is formulated in § 3 (ban on genital-altering surgical interventions): "Parents cannot consent to a genital-altering surgical intervention on the internal or external sexual characteristics of the child. [...]" The last sentence of this paragraph has it all: "§ 1631d BGB remains unaffected." This not only leaves the discriminatory and obviously unconstitutional [[German Circumcision Act|circumcision law]] untouched, but also the protection of intersexual and transsexual people has led to an absurdity whose legal conflict can hardly be resolved in this way. How, for example, is genital mutilation in a boy to be assessed from a legal point of view if the person concerned later decides that the classification "male" did not correspond to their feelings? According to the [[German Circumcision Act]], it might have happened legally, but not according to the [[GREENS]]' draft self-determination law. A commenter on Sven Lehmann's Facebook page commented appropriately: "Especially intersexual and transsexual children are dependent on their foreskin, since this is urgently needed for later self-determined operations. [...] Whoever, like the Greens, sees gender as a freely selectable continuum, but at the same time completely binary and independent of the concrete one characteristics of the sexual organs that legalize genital mutilation makes itself completely implausible."<ref>{{REFweb |url=https://www.facebook.com/sven.lehmann.9250/posts/10223974725339168?comment_id=10223985690173282 |title=comment Luisemarie Keck |website=Facebook |publisher=Sven Lehmann |date=2020-06-04 |accessdate=2020-06-04}}</ref> ==== [[Volker Beck]] ====[[File:Netzregeln10-Volker-Beck.jpg|thumb|100px|Beck 2010]]
The German Greens politician Volker Beck has been working for decades for the legal equality of homosexuals. In relation to the persecution and killing of homosexuals in other countries he spoke out clearly against the encroachments of religions in the rights of others from (while the ban on the killing of another human being in a state of law needs no constraint "in the name of religion"):
{{Citation
|Author=Volker Beck
|Source=
|ref=<refname=bildungsbasar2012>http://www.bildungsbasar.de/2012/10/gesucht-argumente-gegen-ein-beschneidungsverbot/</ref>
}}
In the [[Circumcision Debate]] he still denies, however, that religions engage here in the rights of others and that children are at all bearers of [[human rights]]:
{{Citation
|Text='''Die Religionsfreiheit rechtfertigt keine Eingriffe in die Rechte Dritter.''' Dies ist auch bei der Beschneidung nicht der Fall.
|Author=Volker Beck
|Source=
|ref=<ref>http:name=bildungsbasar2012//www.bildungsbasar.de/2012/10/gesucht-argumente-gegen-ein-beschneidungsverbot/</ref>
}}
Also in 2015, he recruited vehemently for the opening of marriage for all. On June 12, 2015, he stated on Facebook, little self-critical:
|Source=twitter.com
|ref=<ref>https://twitter.com/search?q=volker%20beck</ref>
}}
==== Britta Haßelmann ====
[[File:2020-02-13 Britta Haßelmann (Bundestagsprojekt 2020) by Sandro Halank–1.jpg|thumb|100px|Britta Haßelmann (2020)]]
On 10 December 2019, Britta Haßelmann, member of the Green Bundestag, posted a photo on Facebook to mark International Human Rights Day:
{{Citation
|Title=Today is Human Rights Day.
|Text=All human beings are equal before the law and entitled to the equal protection of the law without distinction.
|Author=Britta Haßelmann
|Source=Facebook
|ref=<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://www.facebook.com/britta.hasselmann/photos/a.232964296901112/1244023822461816/?type=3&theater
|title=Heute ist der Tag der Menschenrechte
|trans-title=Today is Human Rights Day
|language=German
|date=2019-12-10
|accessdate=2019-12-13
}}</ref>
}}
This self-evident and commendable message is in strong contrast to her voting behavior on the [[German Circumcision Act]] of [[2012-12-12]], where she did not care about the right to protection under the law for underage boys in Germany. "Team Britta" responds to criticism of this double standard on Facebook by deleting corresponding comments.
==== Lamya Kaddor ====
[[File:2018-05-14-Lamya Kaddor -hart aber fair-9018.jpg|thumb|100px|Lamya Kaddor (2018)]]
The Islamic scholar and [[GREENS]] Bundestag candidate 2021 Lamya Kaddor wrote an article on ''T-Online'' in January 2021 on the debate about the explicit anchoring of children's rights in the German Basic Law, in which she wants to emphasize children's rights, but with her comments on male rights genital mutilation in children immediately reduces their commitment to children's rights to absurdity:
{{Citation
|Title=The rights of our children are in bad shape
|Text=It will be important to ensure that the construction of a playground does not automatically receive priority, that parents can continue to determine the development of their children and that freedom of religion is preserved. In the case of the latter, the ritual circumcision of boys in Judaism and Islam will again come into focus. Their opponents are already sharpening their feathers.
However, since the practice, if it is carried out medically professionally and early enough, has no humiliating or even traumatizing moment, has always been part of two major world religions, does not entail any particular disadvantages and, above all, does not involve any significant counter-movement among those affected themselves, i.e among male Jews and Muslims, is challenged, its defenders will still have a good hand.
|Author=Lamya Kaddor
|Source=T-Online
|ref=<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/deutschland/id_89280300/pandemie-und-kinderrecht-viele-fehler-nicht-nur-wegen-corona.html
|title=Um die Rechte unserer Kinder ist es schlecht bestellt
|trans-title=The rights of our children are in bad shape
|language=German
|website=T-Online
|last=Kaddor
|first=Lamya
|date=2021-01-14
|accessdate=2021-01-22
}}</ref>
}}
==== Claudia Roth ====
[[File:2014-09-11 - Claudia Roth MdB - 7893.jpg|thumb|100px|Claudia Roth (2014)]]
In the German [[Circumcision Debate]] 2012, the Green member of the Bundestag Claudia Roth took a very clear stance against the protection of boys from genital mutilation:
{{Citation
|Title=The [[Cologne circumcision court judgment|judgment of the district court of Cologne on the ban on circumcision]] for boys is one-sided and unrealistic
|Text=Because it has an exclusionary effect on the long cultural and religious tradition of Jewish and Muslim life. The circumcision of boys involves a debate between the poles of religious freedom, the right to self-determination, cultural rites, medical indications and parental care. This debate can only be conducted with the religious communities and not against them by court order. If the question of circumcision, which is actually an irreversible intervention, were based solely on the will of the children, the entire system of parental care would have to be fundamentally reorganized. As a first step, consideration could be given to prescribing accompanying measures such as broad-based educational work or circumcisions to be performed only by physicians, in order to reduce possible negative consequences of circumcisions.
|Author=[[Claudia Roth]]
|Source=Facebook
|ref=<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://www.facebook.com/Roth/posts/10151054209420664/
|title=Das Urteil des Landgerichts Köln zum Beschneidungsverbot bei Jungen ist einseitig und realitätsfremd
|trans-title=The judgment of the district court of Cologne on the ban on circumcision in boys is one-sided and unrealistic
|language=German
|date=2012-06-28
|accessdate=2021-06-24
}}</ref>
}}
As early as 2006, she and her party colleagues tabled a motion in the German Bundestag that was intended to "protect girls and women from genital mutilation."<ref>{{REFdocument
|title=Mädchen und Frauen vor Genitalverstümmelung schützen
|trans-title=Protect girls and women from genital mutilation
|language=German
|url=https://dip21.bundestag.de/dip21/btd/16/035/1603542.pdf
|contribution=printed matter 16/3542
|publisher=German Bundestag
|format=PDF
|date=2006-11-22
|accessdate=2021-06-24
}}</ref> All of the arguments in the motion at the time would also apply to give boys the same protection. Ms. Roth does not seem to see it that way to this day (2022).
=== [[FDP]] ===
==== Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger ====
[[File:Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger.jpg|thumb|100px|Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger 2013]]
The former FDP Minister of Justice (1992-1996 and 2009-2013) was in charge of the [[German Circumcision Act]]. In a ''Deutschlandfunk'' report in May 2019, ignoring the double standard between her request and her actions in 2012, she demands:
{{Citation
|Text='''The constitution must make it absolutely clear: "Children and young people are bearers of all fundamental rights from birth," says former Federal Minister of Justice Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger.'''
|Author=Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger
|Source=Deutschlandfunk
|ref=<ref>{{REFnews
|url=https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/verfassungsrecht-kinderrechte-ins-grundgesetz.1005.de.html?dram%3Aarticle_id=449047
|title=Kinderrechte ins Grundgesetz, Eine Forderung von Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger
}}</ref>
}}
=== Waris Dirie ===
[[File:Waris_Dirie,_2018_during_her_visit_to_Sierra_Leone.jpg|thumb|100px|Waris Dirie]]Waris Dirie (born 1965 in the region of Gaalkacyo, Somalya) is an Austrian model, author and [[human rights ]] activist fighting against [[female genital mutilation]] (FGM). From 1997 to 2003, she served as a UN special ambassador against female genital cutting. In 2002 she founded her own organization in Vienna (Austria), the Desert Flower Foundation.<ref name="WarisDirie">{{REFweb
|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waris_Dirie
|title=Waris Dirie
== Critics on [[HGM]]-related double standards ==
The German Greens politician and intactivist [[Ulf Dunkel]] has critized double standards of his party collegues and other organizations in this context with several publications:* {{REFweb |url=https://ulfdunkel.wordpress.com/2021/07/18/unicef-bitte-keine-doppelmoral-mehr/ |title=UNICEF, bitte keine Doppelmoral mehr |trans-title=[[UNICEF]], please no more double standards |language=German |last=Dunkel |first=Ulf |author-link=Ulf Dunkel |date=2021-07-18 |accessdate=2021-07-19}}* {{REFnews |url=http://www.freitag.de/autoren/kanada/fangt-endlich-an-vom-kind-her-zu-denken |title=Fangt endlich an, vom Kind her zu denken], ''( |trans-title=At last, start thinking from the child's point of view)''; in '' |language=German |publisher=Der Freitag'', March |last=Dunkel |first=Ulf |author-link=Ulf Dunkel |date=2016-03-20, 2016 |accessdate=2020-05-02}}* [{{REFweb |url=http://ulfdunkel.wordpress.com/2015/12/12/noch-mehr-doppelmoral/ |title=Noch mehr Doppelmoral], ''( |trans-title=Even more double standards)'', December |language=German |last=Dunkel |first=Ulf |author-link=Ulf Dunkel |date=2015-12-12, 2015 |accessdate=2020-05-02}}* [{{REFweb |url=http://ulfdunkel.wordpress.com/2015/11/24/gruene-doppelmoral/ |title=Grüne Doppelmoral], ''( |trans-title=Green Double Standards)'', November |language=German |last=Dunkel |first=Ulf |author-link=Ulf Dunkel |date=2015-11-24, 2015 ([[Double Standard]]) |accessdate=2020-05-02}}
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