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Old or new name on the ballot paper? Transgender Bundestag candidate is fighting for acceptance

2021-07-30T11:24:32.307Z


The Nuremberg Green Tessa Ganserer wants to join the Bundestag. But the transgender woman could be listed by her old name on the ballot paper.


The Nuremberg Green Tessa Ganserer wants to join the Bundestag.

But the transgender woman could be listed by her old name on the ballot paper.

Nuremberg - Tessa Ganserer has been in the Bavarian state parliament for her party Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen * for eight years.

But now she wants to hit the big political stage in Berlin.

She is running for the Bundestag for her electoral district Nürnberg-Nord.

Ganserer competes against Sebastian Brehm from the CSU *.

In contrast to Ganserer, his name will be recognizable on the ballot paper.

At the end of 2018, Tessa Ganserer came out as transgender and was the first German MP to take this step.

According to a report by

Nordbayern.de

,

your current name will

probably not be on the ballot paper.

Instead, it should be listed on it with its "dead name".

Fight for the name on the ballot paper: Tessa Ganserer wants "to be fully accepted"

Ganserer finds this "terrible, degrading and humiliating".

She wants "to be fully accepted" and that her female first name is recognized.

However, it is clear from the legal situation that the names of the candidates registered in the population register must be on the ballot papers.

In it, however, she is listed with her old name.

But changing names is not easy for transgender people.

This is currently regulated by the Transsexual Act - the Greens see this as misanthropic.

Above all, you get angry at the double assessment with questions about sex life.

Name change of transgender people: There are no simple rules

There is currently no simple regulation for changing names in Germany * - although the Council of Europe asked all European member states to introduce a correspondingly simplified procedure for changing names six years ago. In the opinion of Ganserer, however, the grand coalition did not manage to replace the transsexual law with a self-determination law in its ten years at the top.

Tessa Ganserer's attorney Laura Adamietz has now submitted an application to the Nuremberg District Court to help the politician change her name and civil status without the "compulsory assessment".

The court has not yet made a decision, and it is unlikely that it will come in time.

As early as today, Friday (July 30), the regional returning officer will determine what will be on the ballot paper.

If the election committee approves, Tessa Ganserer will be listed with her male name and her current name only in brackets.

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* Merkur.de / bayern is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA

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Source: merkur

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