Tessa Ganserer, member of the German Green Party and transgender candidate for the German Bundestag elections poses for a photo during a Reuters TV reportage in the Bavarian Parliament in Munich, Germany, July 6, 2021. REUTERS/Andreas Gebert
MUNICH (Reuters) -As the first transgender candidate for Germany's parliament, Tessa Ganserer doesn't mince words when it comes to identifying those responsible for the legislative prejudice that she believes LGBT+ voters face.
"That kind of hypocritical show of tolerance just stinks," she tells Reuters, referring to the Conservative lawmakers she accuses of blocking pro-LGBT+ reforms in Berlin's Bundestag while happily draping themselves in the rainbow flag outside it.
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