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Alecs Recher (born November 18, 1975 in Zurich , until 2008: Anja Recher ) is a Swiss lawyer .

He is a qualified curative education teacher ( University of Freiburg ), studied law at the University of Zurich and is doing his doctorate at the University of Lucerne on the legal aspects of drugs for rare diseases. Since his student days he has researched, published and lectured on the rights of transgender people . He is the first trans man in Switzerland to become known to the Swiss public.

From 2003 to 2007, Recher, who for the bicycle couriers came Velo Blitz Zurich and Bern Velokurier the pedals, board member and president of the International Federation of Bike Messenger Associations (IFBMA).

From 2004 to 2014 he represented as a member of the Alternative List , the circuits 4 and 5 in the council of the city of Zurich . He was a member of the special commissions for social affairs, traffic / police and urban development / building construction. From 2004 until the general election in 2006 he was co-president of the Green / AL parliamentary group , after which he headed the AL parliamentary group.

Recher worked from 2007 to 2011 as the managing director of the Democratic Lawyers Zurich. In the vote on the partnership law , Recher and Roland Munz led the pro ‐ committee campaign in the cantons of Zurich and Schaffhausen .

In 2008, with the beginning of his transition as a trans man , he came out in public. In 2009 he founded the organization Transgender Network Switzerland (TGNS) and headed it as Co-President until September 2012. Since then he has been a board member of Transgender Europe (TGEU) and has been co-chairman since 2014. Within the TGNS organization, Recher built up professional, voluntary legal advice for transgender people , in which he himself works as a legal advisor. It is the first advice center in Switzerland to specialize in the rights of transgender people . In 2014 she was awarded the City of Zurich's Equal Opportunities Prize.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography on the website of the Institut Universitaire Kurt Bösch , accessed on October 2, 2014
  2. ↑ “I'm a trans man” , blick.ch, accessed on October 2, 2014
  3. ↑ "Alecs - the first transexual politician in Switzerland" , Tages-Anzeiger of September 3, 2008, accessed on June 14, 2019
  4. ↑ "Alecs Recher looks back" on transgender-network.ch , accessed on October 2, 2014
  5. ^ "From now on, Herr Recher", article in the weekly newspaper WOZ from August 28, 2008 , accessed on October 2, 2014
  6. ↑ "Alecs Recher: puberty at 33," Interview of Radio SRF two of 27 November 2009 called, on October 2, 2014
  7. ↑ Alecs Recher in the talk show Aeschbacher on October 30, 2008 ( Memento from May 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Media release from the City of Zurich of October 1, 2014, accessed on October 2, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Recher, Alecs
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Recher, Anja (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH 18th November 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich