A Czech court has decided to extradite a German neo-Nazi provocateur accused of abusing Germany's gender laws to serve a sentence in a women's prison.Marla-Svenja Liebich - who used to go by the name of Sven before controversially registering a new identity as a woman - was detained under a European arrest warrant in the western Czech Republic in early April and put in pre-trial custody.Liebich, a high-profile figure in eastern Germany's right-wing extremist scene for decades, disappeared last August after failing to show up at a women's prison in Germany to serve a sentence for offences including incitement to racial hatred and slander.'The court issued a verdict handing the requested person over to German authorities,' Jakub Stverak, spokesman for the regional court in the western Czech city of Plzen, said.He added that the moustachioed Liebich now had three days to appeal the verdict.'If the appeal is not filed... (Liebich) will be handed over to Germany within 10 days after the verdict has taken effect,' Stverak said.The Plzen court had already dealt with the case in May, but adjourned it until Monday for the judge to study Liebich's testimony.Liebich was sentenced in 2023, while legally male, to 18 months in prison for offences including incitement to hatred, insult, trespass and defamation. Marla-Svenja Liebich - who used to go by the name of Sven before controversially registering a new identity as a woman - was detained under a European arrest warrant in the western Czech Republic in early April and put in pre-trial custody Pictured: The Right-wing extremist Sven Liebich seen speaking during a protest against Merkel's visit to Chemnitz, Deutschland in 2018 before changing genderIn August 2024, the Halle regional court in Germany upheld the conviction. An appeal to a regional court was dismissed in May 2025.After Germany's Self-Determination Act came into effect on November 1, 2024, permitting individuals to amend gender identification documents, Liebich legally changed gender to female and adopted the name Marla-Svenja.Under regional prison allocation rules, this required her transfer to Chemnitz women's prison.Since then, Liebich has appeared in public wearing women's clothing - and a moustache. Criticism followed, with some alleging tactical misuse of the law and warning of potential loopholes. German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt described the case as evidence of the law's potential for abuse.However, Liebich fled and failed to report to the prison in August 2025, therefore never serving the 18-month sentence. Czech police apprehended her this year in a town near the German border.During an initial hearing in Plzen on May 18, she opposed extradition, citing fears of being placed in a men's prison. Liebich's gender transition was widely seen as intended to mock Germany's Self-Determination Act, introduced in November 2024 under the then centre-left government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz. After Germany's Self-Determination Act came into effect on November 1, 2024, permitting individuals to amend gender identification documents, Liebich legally changed gender to female and adopted the name Marla-Svenja Before the gender change, Liebich had a long record of anti-LGBT rhetoric and had previously referred to LGBT people as 'parasites of society'. Liebich also disrupted a Pride event in Halle, in eastern Germany, fuelling speculation that the transition was politically motivated or intended to secure more favourable prison conditions. The current government of Chancellor Friedrich Merz, led by the conservative CDU/CSU alliance, said after coming to office last year that it would review the Self-Determination Act.The controversy mirrors similar disputes elsewhere. In Scotland, convicted rapist Isla Bryson transitioned while awaiting trial for two rapes committed while living as a man and was initially placed in a women's prison before being moved following public outrage. The UK government blocked attempts to introduce comparable gender reforms in Scotland in 2023.In England, Jessica Winfield was transferred to a women's prison in 2017 after transitioning while serving a life sentence for offences including rape.