Tessa Ganserer

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Tessa Ganserer (2019)

Tessa Ganserer (* 16th May 1977 as Markus Ganserer in Zwiesel ) is a German politician ( Alliance 90 / The Greens ) and member of the Bavarian Parliament . She is the first MP in Germany to publicly come out as a transgender person, and thus also the first trans woman in a German state parliament .

biography

After completing secondary school in 1995, Ganserer completed vocational training as a forest manager . This was followed by attending vocational college , doing community service and working in gardening and landscaping. From 2000 to 2005 studied at the University of Applied Sciences Weihenstephan forestry sector and holds a graduate engineer (FH) and was the member of parliament from 2005 to 2013 Christian Magerl operates.

After her public coming-out in November 2018 as a transgender MP, which had been “a liberation” for her, she announced in January 2019 that she would be living as a woman under the name Tessa Ganserer . Since Ganserer refuses to follow the procedures prescribed in the TSG for a legal name change and for a change of civil status (“I will not stand before a judge to put up with the most intimate personal questions about my early childhood experiences, my sexual preferences and partners so that he can decide for this state that I am the woman I have always been. ”), your male gender entry, your first name at birth in the birth register will remain unchanged until further notice.

Ganserer is married to Ines Eichmüller and they have two sons together.

politics

Ganserer has been a member of Alliance 90 / The Greens since 1998 and ran for the Bavarian state parliament for the first time in 2008. In the state elections in Bavaria in 2013 , she ran in the constituency of Nuremberg-North and received a mandate. In the 17th electoral term (2013–2018) she was a full member of the state parliament committees “Public Service Issues” and “Committee on Economy and Media, Infrastructure, Construction and Transport, Energy and Technology”. She was appointed to the study commission "Equal living conditions in all of Bavaria" and oversees the mobility and forestry policy of the Greens parliamentary group. From 2008 to November 2018 she was the district director of the Green Middle Franconia. Ganserer is also the deputy chairperson of the Committee on Public Service Issues.

Ganserer, who describes the transsexual law as a human rights violation, is queer political spokeswoman for the green parliamentary group and LGBTIQ activist politician. Together with her wife, she fights in particular for the rights of trans people.

In January 2019, the President of the State Parliament, Ilse Aigner (CSU), told the media about the official position of the Bavarian State Parliament regarding the naming of names - regardless of her legal status - she would treat Ganserer as a woman. In the following session of the state parliament on January 23, Aigner informed the members of parliament about the change in plenary and asked “very much to address Ms. Ganserer as a woman in a personal conversation. Letters should be addressed to 'Markus (Tessa) Ganserer', whereby the explicit salutation 'Herr' is not indicated. ”She referred to the fact that“ legal necessities must be taken into account ”,“ which we cannot ignore ”and said with the fact that she “is following a path that is within the meaning of the case law of the Federal Constitutional Court” and that this “above all [...] is a path that respects Ms. Ganserer's dignity and her basic right to free development of personality [n] “would.

In this first name form as Markus (Tessa) , Ganserer, following Aigner's legal view, was used in the official documents of the Bavarian State Parliament until at least February 2020, in the documents that have been current since the beginning of July 2020 and on the personal side, she is now exclusively under her female name Tessa Ganserer guided.

literature

  • Eva-Charlotte Proll: " Standing the woman who I am". As a trans woman, ensure diversity in the public service. (Portrait) In: authorities mirror. Facts, backgrounds and analyzes for the public service. No. VI, 36th year, Berlin and Bonn June 2020, p. 38 ( PDF; p. 48 ).

Web links

Commons : Tessa Ganserer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sophie Madeleine Garbe, Lukas Waschbüsch: Trans woman Tessa Ganserer in the Bavarian state parliament: "I demand that this state accepts me". In: Der Spiegel . December 21, 2019, accessed July 5, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Lisa Schnell: First trans woman in the state parliament: Practical test of tolerance. A trans woman in the state parliament - that is unique in Germany. Many MPs in Bavaria react positively to the Green Tessa Ganserer, but there are also prejudices. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . January 5, 2019, accessed July 5, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Judith Schacht: Green MPs in Bavaria: Now it is like that. Tessa Ganserer is a member of the Greens in the Bavarian state parliament. Her coming out was a breakthrough. She is fighting to be considered a woman. In: taz.de , February 23, 2019, accessed on July 5, 2019: "The transsexual politician Tessa Ganserer, who sits for the Greens in the Bavarian state parliament, talks about her marriage after coming out - and criticizes Horst Seehofer ."
  4. ↑ Lisa Schnell: Transgender: A man in parliament, sometimes a woman in private. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . November 10, 2018, accessed July 5, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b Lisa Schnell: Practical test of tolerance. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 5, 2019, accessed on July 5, 2020.
  6. ↑ a b Rachel Boßmeyer, dpa: As a trans woman in the Bavarian Parliament: "It makes me strong not to fight just for myself". In: t-online.de , August 6, 2019, accessed on July 5, 2020: “Tessa Ganserer has been a member of the Bavarian State Parliament for six years, but only since January with her woman's name. Personally as well as politically: As the first openly transgender MP she fights every day for recognition. "
  7. ↑ What do you look for first in others? An interview without words with the Green MP Tessa Ganserer, who until a year ago still went to the Bavarian state parliament as Markus Ganserer. In: Don't say anything now. Series in SZ Magazin , issue 15/2020, April 8, 2020, accessed on July 5, 2020.
  8. ↑ Franziska Schwarz: Transsexual politician Tessa Ganserer - This is how the sons reacted to their new identity. In: Merkur.de , August 8, 2019, accessed on July 5, 2020.
  9. ↑ New Bavaria study: Half of queer people experience discrimination. According to a new study by the Greens, almost every second person among LGBTI people has reported experiences of discrimination in the past three years. In: Queer.de, May 15, 2020, accessed on July 5, 2020.
  10. ↑ Peter Solfrank: Transgender in the Landtag Greens: Markus is now Tessa. In: Bayerischer Rundfunk , news from January 9, 2019, accessed on January 11, 2019.
  11. ^ President Ilse Aigner: Information regarding MdL Ganserer. In: Minutes 18/6 of January 23, 2019 of the Bavarian State Parliament, 18th electoral period, p. 219. ( Full text online (PDF; p. 9), accessed on July 5, 2019.)
  12. ↑ Bayerischer Landtag - Landtagamt (ed.): Directory of the members of the Bavarian Landtag, 18th electoral period, as amended on February 26, 2020 ( full text online (PDF; p. 3) ( Memento from February 27, 2020 in the Internet Archive ) : "11. Dipl.-Ing.Ganserer Markus (Tessa)".
  13. ↑ Bayerischer Landtag - Landtagamt (ed.): Directory of the members of the Bavarian State Parliament, 18th electoral period, in the version July 5, 2020. ( Full text online (PDF; p. 3) : “11. Dipl.-Ing. Ganserer Tessa ".
  14. ↑ Dipl.-Ing. Tessa Ganserer, B'90 / Greens / Dipl. Ing. (FH) for forestry and forestry. Member biography on the website of the Bavarian State Parliament, accessed on July 5, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Ganserer, Tessa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ganserer, Markus (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), MdL Bavaria
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwiesel