Anna Grodzka

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Anna Grodzka

Anna Grodzka (born March 16, 1954 in Otwock as Krzysztof Bogdan Bęgowski) is a Polish social activist and politician.

Life

Grodzka is a graduate of Warsaw University in Clinical Psychology . She was president and editor-in-chief of a publishing house for ten years and then head of a printing company for ten years. Furthermore, she was involved in various film and television productions as a company owner. She has a son with her wife. At the end of the 1980s she was certified to be transsexual. In 2009, she was in Bangkok a sex reassignment surgery to perform. The transformation into a woman was filmed in a documentary by the television station HBO .

Political and social activities

In 2008, Grodzka founded the Trans-Fuzja association , which advocates the interests of transsexuals , and is its chairman to this day. In Warsaw , she is Deputy Chairwoman of the Commission on Unequal Treatment in the Mayor's Office . She is also active in the Polish LGBT movement.

In the parliamentary elections on October 9, 2011 , she ran in constituency 13 for the liberal Ruch Palikota party of Janusz Palikot . She received 19,451 votes and thus a seat in the Sejm . She became the first known transsexual in the Polish parliament. However, on June 27, 2014, Grodzka left the party and joined the Polish Greens . Nevertheless, she remained a member of her previous group in the Sejm.

She wanted to run for the Greens in the presidential election in May 2015 . However, she did not succeed in collecting the 100,000 necessary signatures for her candidacy.

When the Sejm was elected on October 25, 2015 , she was not elected to the Sejm.

References

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Anna Gordzka. In: Super Express. Retrieved March 26, 2019 (Polish).
  2. ↑ krytykapolityczna.pl, Grodzka: Polityka bez wartości , June 20, 2011
  3. ↑ a b c Website of Anna Grodzka, O mnie ( Memento from November 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ).
  4. ↑ a b przeglad-tygodnik.pl, Krakowski test tolerancji , accessed on October 18, 2011
  5. ↑ Gazeta.pl Kobieta, Skazana na płeć , April 12, 2010
  6. ↑ a b HBO.pl, Trans-akcja , accessed on October 18, 2011
  7. ↑ a b TVN24, Anna Grodzka ( Memento of the original from October 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , October 10, 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tvn24.pl
  8. ^ Website of the State Electoral Commission, Wybory 2011 - Wyniki wyborów , October 14, 2011
  9. ↑ Grodzka changes from Ruch to the Greens, but remains a member of the club , report on www.tvp.pl on June 27, 2014
  10. ^ Two new presidential candidates in the running. In: TheNews.pl , February 2, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Grodzka, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grodzki, Krzysztof (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish social activist and politician, member of the Sejm
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Otwock