Anna Grodzka | |
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 Grodzka in 2011 | |
| Member of theSejm | |
| In office November 2011 – 12 November 2015 | |
| Constituency | 13 – Kraków |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1954-03-16)16 March 1954 (age 71) Otwock, Poland |
| Political party | Democratic Left Alliance (1998–2011) Your Movement (2011–2014) The Greens (2014–2016) Left Together (2017–2019) Polish Socialist Party (2019–2021) |
| Children | 1 |
| Website | annagrodzka |
Anna Grodzka (born 16 March 1954) is a Polish politician. Atrans woman, she was elected to theSejm in the2011 Polish parliamentary elections as a candidate for theleft-liberalPalikot's Movement, and was the first openlytransgender Member ofParliament in Poland,[1] and the third openly transgender member of a national parliament worldwide, afterGeorgina Beyer (in office 1999–2005) andVladimir Luxuria (2006–2008). She was believed to be the only remaining transgender member of parliament[2] untilNikki Sinclaire (in office 2009–2015) outed herself in November 2013.
In June 2014, Grodzka joinedPoland's Green Party[3] but left a year later. In 2019, she became a member ofPPS, which she also left soon after criticizing the party's chairman.[4][5]
Grodzka was born in 1954 atOtwock, nearWarsaw. Before openly transitioning, she was married (wife: Grażyna) and had a son. Shetransitioned in 2009 after divorcing in 2007.[6][7][8][9]
Grodzka was a member of thePolish United Workers' Party at Warsaw University and a political instructor in the Polish Union of Students. Later on she was an entrepreneur and worked in publishing, print industry, and filmmaking.
In 2008, she co-founded and became the first president of theTrans-Fuzja Foundation, which works to improve the living conditions of transgender people in Poland and support them and their relatives through the transition process. The foundation offers psychological support and provides legal advice for judicial gender reassignment and other legal aspects of transition.[10]
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