The claim

Defense Minister Lambrecht allegedly announced that trans people would not be deployed in the Bundeswehr in the event of war due to the lack of gender-appropriate toilets.

Our conclusion

The claim is a complete fabrication. There is not a single report about it, and various public bodies also contradict the claim.

Strictly speaking, the creator of the sharepic is not writing about trans people, but about “gender soldiers,” which probably means the same thing.
So they should be allowed to be in the Bundeswehr, but in the event of war they wouldn't have to go to the front because there would be no gender-appropriate toilets there, which alone raises the question of what gender-appropriate toilets should be. Extra toilets for trans people? They don't exist like that either. In any case, the claim is fictitious.

The sharepic about trans people in the Bundeswehr

This sharepic is currently being shared heavily on social media:

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The false claim about trans people at BW

The claim in full:

“Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht announced today:
The gender soldiers integrated into the Bundeswehr cannot be deployed in the event of war because there are no gender-appropriate toilets at the front.”

The fact check

The claim makes it clear that the creator lacks the vocabulary to even express what is being lied about, so let's help: "Gender soldiers" probably mean trans people, while "gender-equitable Toilets” are probably unisex toilets (although a third toilet option was also considered in Bavaria in 2019).

News report: None

It is unclear when “today” is supposed to be, because the sharepic has been shared since mid-May, but to date there is not a single news line, not an article, not even a subordinate clause that reports that Christine Lambrecht announced this should have.

What various places say about the claim

The colleagues from AFP dug a little deeper and asked in various places whether there might not be such a regulation within the Bundeswehr. Here are the answers:

  • The Federal Association of Trans* : The association has no knowledge of such a regulation that prohibits the use of trans or intersex people in war
  • A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Defense: The claim is of course a false report. “We demand and promote an appreciative and open climate within the armed forces, of course also towards lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people.”
  • A spokeswoman for the Armed Forces Commissioner of the Bundestag : “We have no information of our own about the claim you mentioned.”
  • Anastasia Biefang, first transgender commander in the Bundeswehr and deputy chairwoman of QueerBW : “As far as we know, the statement is a 'fake'. Ms. Lambrecht did not make this statement. Transgender soldiers are certainly deployed on missions. Gender-appropriate toilets are not a prerequisite for the deployment of soldiers on the “front.”

Conclusion

There is not a single report that Christine Lambrecht announced that trans people could not be deployed in the event of war, and various public bodies also contradict the claim.

It is therefore a pure false claim.

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