Germany just elected two trans women to Parliament – a first

Tessa Ganserer (left) has made history with Nyke Slawik (right) as the first two trans MPs to be elected in Germany. (Photos: AFP via Getty/ JOHN MACDOUGALL and Instagram/ nyketomato)

Germany will welcome its first-ever trans MPs to the Bundestag after a federal election that saw the centre-left SDP narrowly beat the centre-right CDU.

According to preliminary results on Monday morning (27 September), the SPD and its chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz won…