Gender theory and gender politics

In the Principality of Saalenia, an active **gender policy and a differentiation of genders** has always been characteristic. In both its history and modern issues, Saalnian politics and society rejects egalitarian ideas on gender issues.The social basis is matriarchy. Gender policy has been reformed since the reign of Katarina II (from 2001) and is now unique in the world. However, misandry and matriarchy remain fundamental principles of the state system, which is why one speaks of a matriarchal-aristocratic basic order.

## Gender theory since Katarina II

*Main article: Katarinianism*

In the early 2010s, the reigning Princess made a trip to Horasia. There she became acquainted with the work of Horasic gender studies, which separates sex, gender/gender identity and sexual orientation, none of which is binary. In addition, it is anchored in the Horasic culture that gender identity takes precedence over biological sex.

Until then, there was a binary gender policy in Saalenia, consisting of preferred women and discriminated against men, which referred to biological sex. Intersex people were known and were seen as standing between men and women in their evaluation, but mostly on the same legal basis as men. To this she said:

> *"On my travels in the Horasian Empire, I learned about the idea of performative or psychological gender. We know the principle of trans people. In the Empire, trans women are considered female souls who unfortunately live in the male body. For the Horasians, the state of mind and the soul is much more important than the condition of the body, so trans women are considered full women by them. A flash of inspiration came to me. The Almighty Goddess Gaya is in no material state and purely cognitive. The basic principle of divinity is femininity, but why should the goddess pushing it into the narrow confines of the physical world. We have ignored trans people so far, so we leave women in men's bodies and men in women's bodies, which is a scandal in the sense of sacred and earthly matriarchy. My goal now is the genders in their value to differentiate and end the biological-binary system".*
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She uses the classic Horasic model (picture one) of the gender spectrum, which holds 11 genders, and divided all genders into five value classes based on "degree of femininity". It is now about gender identity and biological sex is no longer considered. So trans women are considered women and trans men are considered men. It was a small revolution, but it was certainly accepted. The Ministry of Religion and Gender Issues is responsible for assigning the gender, which does this on the basis of a psychological examination. According to the new legal text, this also has to "ensure that the physical reality of the individual is adapted to the psychological reality as quickly and comprehensively as possible". Medical gender reassignment and psychological help is therefore easy and accessible to all citizens.

The Princess also somewhat reformed the individual states of the sexes. Single men now have better earning opportunities, for example, yet Misandry riddled Katarina's politics. A famous exclamation on her part is: *"I value every working-class woman more than every nobleman"*.

## The classification of the genders in value classes

The horasian thirteen genders are now divided into five classes. Each class has descending political rights. These are:

Gender classes
 Class 5 | Male (Cis and Trans male) | No voting rights, Restricted access to higher education, Restricted property and inheritance rights, Restricted career choices.