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27 Sep, 6 tweets, 4 min read
🎉 Two trans women made history last night as the first trans MPs to be elected to the German parliament!

🇩🇪 Germany has welcomed Green Party’s @GansGruen and @Nyke_Slawik to the Bundestag.

⭕️ Here’s what you need to know about them. 👇🧵
🏳️‍⚧️ @GansGruen was the first out trans person to be in a regional or national parliament in Germany.

🗳 This is the first election she has run since coming out.

🟢 She has pushed to make it easier for trans people to change their legal name and gender.
🏳️‍⚧️ At only 27 years old, @Nyke_Slawik will be serving her first term as an MP.

♻️ She's using her position to help fight the #ClimateCrisis.

📖 She hopes that her election will a start a more diverse chapter in German politics.

🗣 Both MPs have promised to work towards a new self-ID law in Germany.

📜 Germany currently requires trans people to get a mental health diagnosis in order to change their legal gender.

⭕️ Campaigners say the process is long, intrusive and expensive.
🏳️‍🌈 More people identify as a gender other than male or female in Germany and Sweden compared to the rest of the world, according to the @Ipsos LGBT+ Pride 2021 Global Survey.

🏳️‍⚧️ 7% of those surveyed said they had a relative, friend or work colleague who is trans.
Read more about their groundbreaking win 👇

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