Transgender woman poised for seat in Poland's new parliament

[Shana A]

Transgender woman poised for seat in Poland's new parliament
Anna Grodzka, 57, could become the first transgender person to sit in Poland's parliament after a new anti-clerical party stormed the parliamentary election scoring an unprecedented third spot finish.

7:00AM BST 10 Oct 2011

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/8817279/Transgender-woman-poised-for-seat-in-Polands-new-parliament.html

Born as a man, Ms Grodzka, now 57, completed her gender change last year with the help of the Trans-Fuzja organisation focused on gender change.

Topping the Palikot Movement party list in the devoutly Catholic southern city of Krakow - once home to the late Polish-born pope John Paul II - Ms Grodzka was thrilled by Sunday's strong showing at the polls.

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First transsexual MP ever?
Mon, 10 Oct 2011 7:25
 
http://news.iafrica.com/worldnews/756787.html

Palikot Movement candidate Anna Grodzka (57) could become the first transsexual to sit in Poland's parliament after a brand new anti-clerical party stormed Sunday's parliamentary election scoring an unprecedented third spot finish.

Born as a man, Grodzka, completed her sex change last year with the help of the Trans-Fuzja organisation focused on gender change.

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Poland Poised to Elect Its First Transsexual Parliamentarian
By: William Lee Adams (23 hours ago)

http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/10/10/poland-poised-to-elect-its-first-transsexual-parliamentarian/

In a country that isn't known for its progressive politics, male-to-female transsexual Anna Grodzka is proving to be a political trailblazer.

The 57-year old, who completed her sex change last year, could become the country's first transsexual parliamentarian after her party, the Palikot Movement, earned a surprising 10% of all votes during Poland's Oct. 9 election. Poland operates under a party-list proportional representation system in which parties are allocated parliamentary seats based on the proportion of votes the party receives. Because the Palikot Movement has earned an estimated 40 seats, and because Grodzka is at the top of the party's candidate list in Krakow, she will likely earn a spot in the Sejm, the lower house of the Polish parliament.