Who's sexist now?

Dear Reader,

Since the start of November, Germans have been able to change their sex with a dash of a pen at their local registry office.

This change comes after the Bundestag voted to free the definition of male and female from the constraints of biology back in April. 

With the self-identification law now in force, we are all now free to decide for ourselves whether we are male, female, or to belong to no sex at all. Your sex can be changed back and forth as often as you want as long as you don’t do it twice in one year.

I have to admit that I don’t quite have the intellectual dexterity to wrap my head around this revolution. 

Does it mean that sex is simply a social construct that has lost its societal relevance - in which case why keep it in the law at all? 

Or is this a recognition that we aren’t just born with the physical features of a sex, but some immaterial “knowledge” that is more significant than simply having a penis or a vagina. If so, this would appear to be an admission of t…