Two transgender women win seats in German parliament


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  • Monday, 27 Sep 2021

FILE PHOTO: Tessa Ganserer, member of the German Green Party and transgender candidate for the German Bundestag elections speaks during a Reuters TV interview in the Bavarian Parliament in Munich, Germany, July 6, 2021. REUTERS/Andreas Gebert/File Photo

BERLIN (Reuters) - Two German politicians from the Greens have made history by becoming the first transgender women to win parliamentary seats in Sunday's national election.

Tessa Ganserer and Nyke Slawik stood for the Greens party, which came third in the election, increasing its share of the vote to 14.8% from 8.9% in 2017 and is set to play a pivotal role in the building of a new three-way coalition government.

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