The Baden-Württemberg State Center for Civic Education (LpB) has published a new issue of its magazine, “Bürger & Staat,” featuring six articles and an interview that explore the dissemination of gender diversity. The issue centers on how trans* and non-binary perspectives and topics can be anchored and strengthened within political education, and what it means to create inclusive spaces in society, according to the LpB.
One piece focuses in particular on “school as a powerful queer educational space for learning and living.” Historical vantage points on “trans life in Germany” as well as educational narratives about gender and sexual diversity from 1958 through 2025 — for both (West) Berlin and Baden-Württemberg — enable, according to the LpB, “a critical look back” and illustrate “how essential it is to make the life stories of trans* and non-binary people visible.”
In an interview, a participant who works as a naturopathic psychotherapist and as a project manager for the Queer Network Baden-Württemberg offers insights into the daily lives and lived realities of queer youth. The interview and other contributions in the publication demonstrate “how mounting transphobia translates into exclusion and even attacks against queer people” — and how insufficient the current support services often are in the face of these hostilities, the LpB notes.
The issue, according to the Landeszentrale, traces its origins to the conference “Trans*, Non-Binary and Political as well as Historical Education,” held on September 29–30, 2025, in collaboration with the Queer Network Baden-Württemberg at the LpB’s conference center, “Haus auf der Alb.”
The magazine “Bürger & Staat” is issued three times a year and, according to the LpB, provides “baseline assessments of current political and societal questions” for both professionals and interested members of the public. Free individual issues and bulk sets can be ordered through the agency’s online shop. Shipping costs apply for orders weighing more than 500 grams.
