Hoist by their own petard much?

A German neo-Nazi will be allowed to start serving an 18-month sentence in a women’s prison after he used a new government policy to register a change in gender.

Sven Liebich, who has been photographed at far-Right rallies wearing a Nazi-style uniform, will be sent to the Chemnitz women’s prison in Saxony, according to FAZ, a German newspaper.

Because he’s obviously not taking the piss, right? Totally sincere?

Also of course there’s the issue of the safety of actual women in the prison, but meh, that doesn’t matter.

Dennis Cernota, a senior prosecutor in Saxony, said that Liebich would be interviewed upon arrival to check whether it was appropriate for him to be placed among female prisoners. If it is decided that Liebich poses a threat to other inmates, or to law and order inside the prison, he may be transferred, Mr Cernota added.

And they’ll be able to figure that out by interviewing him, because of course he won’t lie and manipulate, right?

Liebich was able to switch genders via reforms introduced last year by Olaf Scholz’s centrist coalition, which simplified the process of changing a person’s name and gender on official documents.

The reforms were supposed to support transgender, intersex and non-binary people in Germany, but their use by a neo-Nazi to avoid male prisoners has plunged them into controversy.

Bashes head against wall

How many billion times have we pointed out that any man can “use” such reforms to avoid male prisons and make female prisons extra-special dangerous for women? How many billion times have we pointed out that’s why there are separate prisons in the first place, and that if you make exceptions then you’re opening the door to men doing exactly what Herr Nazi is doing? How many more times do we have to explain it???

When Mr Scholz was in power, he justified the reforms on gender changes as a key step forward for German society and its respect towards minorities.

“We show respect to trans, intersex and non-binary people, without taking anything away from others. This is how we continue to drive the modernisation of our country. This includes recognising realities of life and making them possible by law,” he said.

You can’t, you absolute buffoon. You can’t do that because it is not possible. You can’t let men into women’s prisons without “taking away” women’s safety from men in prisons. You have to pick one.