Anna Grodzka is a Polish

Poles

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 politician. Grodzka was elected to the Sejm

Sejm

The Sejm is the lower house of the Polish parliament. The Sejm is made up of 460 deputies, or Poseł in Polish . It is elected by universal ballot and is presided over by a speaker called the Marshal of the Sejm ....

 in the 2011 Polish parliamentary elections

Polish parliamentary election, 2011

A parliamentary election to both the Senate and the Sejm was held in Poland on 9 October 2011. The previous election, in 2007, resulted in a Civic Platform–Polish People's Party government...

 as a candidate for the liberal

Liberalism

Liberalism is the belief in the importance of liberty and equal rights. Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but generally, liberals support ideas such as constitutionalism, liberal democracy, free and fair elections, human rights,...

 Palikot's Movement. She is the first ever transsexual MP in European history.

Born in 1954 as Krzysztof Bęgowski, she underwent male-to-female sex reassignment surgery

Sex reassignment surgery

Sex reassignment surgery is a term for the surgical procedures by which a person's physical appearance and function of their existing sexual characteristics are altered to resemble...

 in 2010. She was an entrepreneur and worked in publishing, poligraphy and filmmaking.

Grodzka is currently the only transgender

Transgender

Transgender is a general term applied to a variety of individuals, behaviors, and groups involving tendencies to vary from culturally conventional gender roles....

 MP in the world. She is the third transgender MP in world history after the transsexual New Zealand MP Georgina Beyer

Georgina Beyer

Georgina Beyer was the world's first openly transsexual mayor, as well as the world's first openly transsexual Member of Parliament, and from 27 November 1999 until 14 February 2007 was an MP for the Labour Party in New Zealand.-Early life:Georgina Bertrand was born and assigned male at birth, and...

, and the transgender Italian MP, Vladimir Luxuria

Vladimir Luxuria

Vladimir Luxuria born Wladimiro Guadagno in Foggia, Apulia is an Italian actress, writer, politician and television personality. Luxuria was a Communist Refoundation Party member of the Italian parliament, belonging to Romano Prodi's L'Unione coalition...

, who has not had a legal sex change.

External links

• Official website (Polish)