Alina S. is a 48 year-old unemployed social welfare recipient from Dortmund who also happens to be both a male-to-female transsexual and intersexed, thanks to what he claims is “incomplete gender reassignment.”

What Alina S. mainly does with his abundant spare time, is sit around and fill out job applications. In the last eight years, he claims to have applied for some 1,600 positions. He needs employers to reject him, because in doing so they give him standing to take them to court on the strength of the General Equal Treatment Act. Invariably, Alina S. alleges some element of discrimination – for example, the omission of a “d” in the job ad indicating that “diverse” applicants are welcome – and according to this amazing article in the Westfalen-Blatt, his lawsuits have seen an astounding 100% success rate.

So far, Alina S. has collected monetary damages from prospective employers in at least 250 cases. That is not a typographical error. This man is a menace who has literally prevailed in hundreds of separate efforts to shake down local, mostly small-time businesses. His winnings average around €1,000, but they can often exceed €3,000 or more. Alina S. has therefore, by the most conservative estimates, drained upwards of a quarter million Euros from the economy of Nordrhein-Westfalen over the course of his career as a professionally aggrieved intersex transtrocity. These payouts are exempt from taxation and cannot be counted against Alina S.’s social welfare payments. What is more, reports suggest that he pursues at least some of his lawfare with legal aid. The German state literally pays him to do this.