Until 2017, anyone who wanted to say at least "some form of yes" to each other as a same-sex couple had to rely on the registered civil partnership. Many spoke of a "second-class marriage" in this context, as those involved were far from ...

Men who desire other men, want to have sex with them and/ or are in a committed relationship with a man are called gay. When people think of gay sex, they often think of the "classic": anal sex. But: The world of ...

Transgender women are people who were born with male sex characteristics but do not identify as men. As the name suggests, they identify as women. When a transgender woman realizes that there is a difference between her ...

Transgender people are exposed to various prejudices in everyday life. Many people associate the word "trans" alone with several characteristics that either do not apply at all or only in part. Classic prejudices with which transgender people are confronted again and again are: ...

Cis or cisgender means that the person in question feels that he or she belongs to the gender that was "given" to him or her at birth. Or in other words, a man who was born with male sexual characteristics also identifies as a man. And likewise feels ...