Nuremberg member of the Bundestag Tessa Ganserer insulted in Berlin – now the state security is investigating

Created: 04/08/2022, 19:26

By: Thomas Eldersch

The Green MP Tessa Ganserer was insulted in Berlin.

State security is now investigating.

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Green MP Tessa Ganserer was insulted in a video shared on social networks.

State security is now investigating.

Berlin/Munich – The Greens politician Tessa Ganserer from Nuremberg* has been sitting in the Berlin Bundestag for around six months.

But just getting there wasn't easy for the transgender MP.

On the ballot paper for the 2021 federal election, she was still listed under her old male name*.

The reason was the approximately 40-year-old transsexual law, which only allows a name change if a psychological report is prepared and a judicial OK is given.

Tessa Ganserer is also approached by AfD MP Beatrix von Storch

Even when she made it into the Bundestag - she had previously been a member of the Bavarian state parliament - the humiliations were inevitable.

AfD MP Beatrix von Storch caused indignation in February* of this year with a statement about Ganserer.

"If Ganserer wears a skirt, lipstick, heels, then that's perfectly fine.

But it is his private matter.

Biologically and legally he is and will remain a man.

And if he enters the Bundestag as such via the green women’s quota and is listed here as a woman, that is simply illegal.”

The reactions were strong and unequivocal.

The Green politician was not only supported by numerous colleagues, but also by many people on the Internet*.

Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach (SPD) put it in a nutshell: "All parties except the AfD are opposed to the inhuman speech by the AfD on International Women's Day in the Bundestag." He later described von Storch's speech as "a disgrace". .

Video: First transgender woman moves into the Bundestag

Nuremberg member of the Bundestag Tessa Ganserer was insulted in Berlin

Barely two months later, the woman from Nuremberg is again exposed to transphobic attacks.

The Berlin police announced on Friday (April 8) that "after the publication of a video on social media in which a member of the Bundestag was addressed in a derogatory manner and transphobly insulted yesterday at the Platz der Republik in Mitte, the police state security service ex officio initiated an investigation".

The police press release also states that a 25-year-old is suspected.

He is being investigated for defamation, defamation of political figures, insult and incitement to hatred.

The 44-year-old politician herself has not yet commented on the incident.

You can read more about hate speech here*.