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<p>By Klaus Jetz, LSVD</p><p>Three important and positive news for LGBT families in Germany during the Summer of 2009 leading up to the German election in September 2009.</p>

<p class="MsoNormal">Linda Freimane, member of ILGA-Europe’s Executive Board and Philipp Braun, Secretary General of ILGA, took part in the opening ceremony alongside Klaus Wowereit, the openly gay Mayor of Berlin, and Bernd Neumann, Minister of State, Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.</p>

<p>Today in a unanimous decision the German constitutional Court considerably strengthened the rights of transgender people under German law, particularly the rights of non-operative transsexual people who live in same-gender relationships. </p>

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