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Tessa Ganserer
MP
Member of the Landtag of Bavaria for Middle Franconia
Incumbent
Assumed office
October 7, 2013
ConstituencyAlliance '90/The Greens List
Personal details
Born (1977-05-16) 16 May 1977 (age 47)
Zwiesel, Regen
Bavaria, Germany
Political partyAlliance 90/The Greens
SpouseInes Eichmüller
Children2
Alma materWeihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Science
Website[1]

Tessa Ganserer (born 16 May 1977) is a German politician who has served as a member of the Landtag of Bavaria since October 7, 2013, representing the constituency of Middle Franconia on the Alliance '90/The Greens list.[1] During the 2021 German Federal Election Ganserer was elected to the Bundestag from Bavaria on the Alliance '90/The Greens list. She will take her seat on October 26, 2021.[2] In 2018 Ganserer came out as a transgender woman, becoming the first openly transgender person in a German state or federal parliament.

Early life and career

Ganserer was born on 16 May 1977 in Zwiesel, Bavaria.[3] She studied forestry and engineering at Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Science, graduating in 2005. Later that year she worked as a staffer for German politician Christian Magerl.[3]

Political career

Early beginnings

Ganserer belongs to Alliance 90/The Greens, a green political party, and has been a member since 1998. She ran for a seat in the Landtag of Bavaria in 2008 but was unsuccessful. From 2008 to 2018 she served as the District Executive of the Green Middle Franconia.

Career in state politics

In the 2013 elections, Ganserer was elected in the Nuremberg North electoral district to sit in the Landtag.[4] She sat on the committees for Economic and Media Affairs, Infastructures, Construction and Transport, Energy and Technology, and as Vice Chairman of Public Service from 2013 until 2018.[5][6]

In December 2018 Ganserer came out as transgender woman, becoming the first member of the Landtag of Bavaria and of a German parliament to be openly transgender.[7][8][9] She made her first public appearance as a woman at a press conference in Munich on 14 January 2019.[10][11] Ilse Aigner, a member of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria and President of the Landtag of Bavaria, supported Ganserer in her transition and welcomed her to parliament as a woman.[12][13][14]

In the 2021 German Federal Election, Ganserer was elected to the Bundestag on the Alliance 90/The Greens list for Bavaria. However, because Ganserer has not changed her legal name in protest against the German Transsexual Act, which requires invasive psychological evaluations to change name and gender marker, she was forced to appear on the ballot under her deadname. Along with fellow Green Nyke Slawik, Ganserer became the first openly transgender person elected to the German Parliament.

While her gender change has not yet been legally finalized, she is recognized in the Landtag as a woman.[15]

Ganserer is married to Ines Eichmüller and has two sons.[16]

References

  1. ^ "Abgeordnetenkarte 2020 | Bayerischer Landtag". www.bayern.landtag.de. Retrieved 2021-09-27.
  2. ^ "Nach der Bundestagswahl: Wie geht es jetzt weiter?". www.rnd.de (in German). Retrieved 2021-09-27.
  3. ^ a b "Aus Markus wird Tessa Ganserer – plötzlich eine Frau mehr im bayerischen Landtag". haz.de. Retrieved 2019-02-11.
  4. ^ "Regional lawmaker is Germany's first transgender MP - The Express Tribune". tribune.com.pk. 2019-01-14. Retrieved 2019-02-11.
  5. ^ "Suche - Bayerischer Landtag". bayern.landtag.de. Retrieved 2019-02-11.
  6. ^ "Tessa Ganserer - Abgeordnete - Bündnis 90/Die Grünen im Landtag Bayern". gruene-fraktion-bayern.de. Retrieved 2019-02-11.
  7. ^ "Tessa Ganserer: Grünen-Abgeordnete ist erste Transfrau im Bayerischer Landtag". WEB.DE. 2019-01-15. Retrieved 2019-02-11.
  8. ^ "'I am a woman with every fiber of my body': Germany's first transgender MP". The Local. 2019-01-14. Retrieved 2019-02-11.
  9. ^ Süddeutsche.de GmbH, Munich, Germany. "Tessa Ganserer, erste Transfrau im bayerischen Landtag - Bayern - Süddeutsche.de". sueddeutsche.de. Retrieved 2019-02-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  10. ^ "Tessa Ganserer makes history as first transgender MP in Germany". gaytimes.co.uk. 2019-01-17. Retrieved 2019-02-11.
  11. ^ "German MP Tessa Ganserer comes out as transgender - PinkNews · PinkNews". pinknews.co.uk. 2019-01-15. Retrieved 2019-02-11.
  12. ^ "Transgender bei den Landtags-Grünen: Markus ist nun Tessa - BR24". br.de. 2019-01-09. Retrieved 2019-02-11.
  13. ^ "German MP Comes Out as Trans Woman, Makes History". advocate.com. 2019-01-15. Retrieved 2019-02-11.
  14. ^ "Für die Grünen: Tessa Ganserer ist die erste Transfrau im Landtag - Politik". merkur.de. 2019-01-15. Retrieved 2019-02-11.
  15. ^ Schwilden, Frédéric (2019-01-14). "Grünen-Abgeordnete Tessa Ganserer: Eine ganz normale Frau". Die Welt. Retrieved 2019-02-11.
  16. ^ "Der Raserei auf deutschen Autobahnen ein Ende setzen" (PDF). jeden-kann-es-treffen.de. Retrieved 2019-02-11.
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