"We simply want to make life a bit easier for a small group for which it has great significance," FDP Justice Minister Marco Buschmann told German public broadcaster ZDF.
Such attacks are "conscious strategic decisions" by the far right, says Sascha Krahnke*, an expert on transphobia and the far right at the Amadeu Antonio Foundation in Berlin.
"These are all mechanisms that have always worked on specific groups and communities, where you can see it is instrumental to mobilize people, to create fear, to politicize issues without it actually being about those groups," explained Krahnke.
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