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Key facts
- Constituency
- 13 – Kraków
- Born
- ( 1954-03-16 ) 16 March 1954 (age 72) , Otwock , Poland
- Party
- Democratic Left Alliance (1998–2011), Your Movement (2011–2014), The Greens (2014–2016), Left Together (2017–2019), Polish Socialist Party (2019–2021)
- Website
- annagrodzka .info
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Anna
- Gender
- trans woman
- Citizenship
- Poland
- Place of birth
- Otwock
- Occupation
- activist
- Political party
- Democratic Left Alliance
- Languages spoken
- Polish
- Religion
- atheism
- Field of work
- social activist
- Movement
- transidentity
- Official website
- www.annagrodzka.pl
- Image
- Anna Grodzka.jpg
- Work location
- Warsaw
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- Commons category
- Anna Grodzka
- date of birth
- 1954-03-16
- birth name
- Krzysztof Bogdan Bęgowski
- name in native language
- Anna Grodzka
- P10632
- Anna Grodzka
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Encyclopedic overview
Anna Grodzka (born 16 March 1954) is a Polish politician. A trans woman, she was elected to the Sejm in the 2011 Polish parliamentary elections as a candidate for the left-liberal Palikot's Movement, and was the first openly transgender Member of Parliament in Poland, and the third openly transgender member of a national parliament worldwide, after Georgina Beyer (in office 1999–2005) in New Zealand and Vladimir Luxuria (2006–2008) in Italy. She was believed to be the only remaining transgender member of parliament until Nikki Sinclaire (in office 2009–2015) outed herself in November 2013.
In June 2014, Grodzka joined Poland's Green Party but left a year later. In 2019, she became a member of PPS, which she also left soon after criticizing the party's chairman.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Anna Grodzka” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.