Tens of thousands of high school students took to the streets of cities all over the country to protest against the reintroduction of military service. Many people believe that conscription is inevitable.

Young people gathered in Berlin’s central Potsdamer Square on Thursday and marched through the German capital to protest against the government’s plans to reintroduce military service. While the police counted around 3,000 participants, organizers claimed there were 6,000 demonstrators in Berlin and 50,000 in more than 130 towns and cities across Germany.

  • JensSpahnpasta@feddit.orgEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Ok, I know learned that you attacked me for no reason. Do you know what? Military service in germany does not work like you think in regards of gender. And german law also does not work like that. As you might know we have the “Selbstbestimmungsgesetz” allowing you to legally change your “Geschlecht” (which is not the Gender you are talking about) and that law has a part that states that you can’t change your Geschlecht in the case of a war (“Spannungsfall”) in order to get around the draft. So military service is really only mandatory for “males” (or to be correct: for the german “Männer”) and having a different cultural gender role will not exempt you.

    So please don’t go around and accuse people of sexism if you have no idea what you are actually talking about. Different countries really have different laws about those topics. And german law is totally not having this difference between sex and gender.