First trans MPs elected in Germany

Two transgender MPs were elected to the Bundestag in this weekend’s federal elections in Germany, in a historic first for the country.

Tessa Ganserer and Nyke Slawik were both elected as MPs for the Greens.

Ganserer, 44, who has been a member of parliament for Nuremberg North since 2013, came out as a trans woman in 2019, henceforth becoming the first-ever public transgender person to sit in a German regional or national parliament, with this being her first election since the announcement.

27-year-old Nyke Slawik will be serving her first term as MP for the Leverkusen, Cologne IV constituency.

She unsuccessfully ran for parliament in 2017, and the European parliament in 2019.