Two women win seats in German parliament

Two German politicians from the Greens have made history by becoming the first transgender women to win parliamentary seats successfully in Sunday’s national election.

essa Ganserer and Nyke Slawik stood for the Greens party, which came 3rd successful the election, expanding its stock of the ballot to 14.8pc from 8.9pc successful 2017 and is acceptable to play a pivotal relation successful the gathering of a caller three-way conjugation government.

“It is simply a historical triumph for the Greens, but besides for the trans-emancipatory question and for the full queer community.

“The results were a awesome of an unfastened and tolerant society,” Ganserer said.

Ganserer, who has 2 sons, besides wants legislative changes to let lesbian mothers to follow children.

Slawik, 27, said the results were unbelievable. She secured a spot successful parliament done the Greens database of candidates successful the occidental authorities of North Rhine-Westphalia.

She, however called for a nationwide enactment program against homophobia and transphobia, a self-determination law, and improvements to the national anti-discrimination law.

Homosexuality was decriminalised in Germany in 1969 and same-sex matrimony legalised in 2017.

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