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After the AfD attack on Ganserer: Solidarity is shown online – but now other parties are causing outrage

2022-02-23T05:22:17.764Z


After the AfD attack on Ganserer: Solidarity is shown online – but now other parties are causing outrage Created: 02/23/2022Updated: 02/23/2022 06:09 By: Tanja Kipke The statements by an AfD politician against the transgender MP Tessa Ganserer have triggered a real debate on the Internet. The solidarity is great. Nuremberg – "Legally, he is and will remain a man": With these words, AfD politic


After the AfD attack on Ganserer: Solidarity is shown online – but now other parties are causing outrage

Created: 02/23/2022Updated: 02/23/2022 06:09

By: Tanja Kipke

The statements by an AfD politician against the transgender MP Tessa Ganserer have triggered a real debate on the Internet.

The solidarity is great.

Nuremberg – "Legally, he is and will remain a man": With these words, AfD politician Beatrix von Storch provoked transgender MP Tessa Ganserer in a speech last week.

Von Storch accused the majority of MPs in the Bundestag of having a “gender ideology”.

The statements sparked debate on Twitter.

Many showed solidarity with the woman from Nuremberg.

The hashtag #SolidaritywithTessa is currently trending on Twitter.

But not everyone is behind Ganserer.

After the AfD attack on Tessa Ganserer from Nuremberg: Lauterbach speaks out

Many show solidarity with Tessa Ganserer on Twitter.

Her own party, the Greens, tweeted immediately after von Storch's speech: "Trans women are women.

We're all behind you."

The leader of the Bündnis 90/Die Grünen parliamentary group, Britta Haßelmann, described Storch's statements as "deeply inhuman".

The SPD parliamentary group in the Bundestag also showed solidarity on Twitter, as did the Young Liberals and the Animal Welfare Party.

The deputy leader of the FDP parliamentary group also tweeted: "Trans women are women".

Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach also said in the debate: "All parties except the AfD oppose the inhumane speech by the AfD on International Women's Day in the Bundestag." He later described von Storch's speech as "a disgrace".

After AfD attack on Ganserer: Now another party is causing outrage

However, some on the network support the statements made by AfD MPs von Storch.

The member of parliament for the CDU, Christoph de Vries, is one of them.

In a tweet he wrote: "Everyone should feel as they want in a free country.

But if someone is to be forced to address a person who is legally and biologically clearly a man as a woman, this is an expression of a totalitarian, unrealistic attitude caused enormous outrage on Twitter.

The retweet now appears to have been deleted and can no longer be found.

However, a Twitter user shared a screenshot.

Others are upset that Ganserer was able to get into the Bundestag "through the women's quota".

At the end of January, the "Gender Counts" initiative accused the Greens of abusing the women's quota and spoke of electoral fraud.

Federal election 2021: Tessa Ganserer was on the ballot as a man

Ganserer herself gave her first speech in the Bundestag on the subject of sustainable development that day, without going into the previous statements.

She also did not comment on the debate on Twitter.

Like many others in her situation, she refuses to have her first name and gender officially changed under the Transgender Act.

The 40-year-old law stipulates that those affected are only allowed to do so after a psychological assessment and a court decision - they often have to put up with very intimate questions.

Ganserer was therefore still on the ballot paper for the federal election with the male first name that she had discarded.

The politician has therefore been campaigning for a change in the transsexual law for a long time.

According to the coalition agreement, the traffic light government wants to change the law into a self-determination law.

It remains to be seen when this change will come into effect.

(tkip)

Source: merkur

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