1. Tessa Ganserer was born on Markus Ganserer; 16 May 1977 and is a German politician who has served as a member of the Bundestag since 26 October 2021.
13 Facts About Tessa Ganserer
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In 2018 Ganserer came out as a transgender woman, becoming the first openly transgender person in a German state or federal parliament.
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Tessa Ganserer was born on 16 May 1977 in Zwiesel, Bavaria.
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Tessa Ganserer studied forestry and engineering at Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Science, and, after graduating in 2005, became a staffer for German politician Christian Magerl.
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Tessa Ganserer ran for a seat in the Landtag of Bavaria in 2008, but was unsuccessful.
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Tessa Ganserer sat on the committees for Economic and Media Affairs, Infrastructure, Construction and Transport, Energy and Technology, and as Vice Chair of Public Service from 2013 until 2018.
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In December 2018, Tessa Ganserer came out as a transgender woman, becoming the first member of the Landtag of Bavaria and of a German parliament to be openly transgender.
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Tessa Ganserer made her first public appearance as a woman at a press conference in Munich on 14 January 2019.
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In parliament, Tessa Ganserer has been serving on the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety, and Consumer Protection and the Parliamentary Advisory Board on Sustainable Development.
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In October 2024, Tessa Ganserer announced that she would not stand in the 2025 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.
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Tessa Ganserer is married to Ines Eichmuller with whom she has two sons.
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Tessa Ganserer hadn't changed her legally recorded name and gender in protest against the German Transsexual Law, which requires two psychological evaluations by court-appointed evaluators to validate a person's transgender identity.
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Since then, a new law exists and on August 1,2024, Tessa Ganserer registered the change of her first name and gender entry with the Zwiesel registry office in order to have it take effect on the day the new Self-Determination Act comes into force, November 1, after the required three-month waiting period.