Anna Grodzka
Anna Grodzka (born Krzysztof Bogdan Bęgowski 16 March 1954 in Otwock) is a Polish politician. Grodzka, a trans woman, was elected to the Sejm in the 2011 Polish parliamentary elections as a candidate for the left-liberal Palikot\'s Movement, and was the first openly transgender Member of Parliament in Poland. In June 2014, Anna Grodzka joined Poland\'s Green Party. She was the third openly transgender member of a national parliament world-wide, after Georgina Beyer (in office 1999-2005) and Vladimir Luxuria (2006-2008). She was believed to be the only remaining transgender member of parliament until Nikki Sinclaire (in office 2009-2015) outed herself in November 2013. She was born in 1954 in Otwock as Krzysztof Bogdan Bęgowski. Before openly transitioning, she was married and had a son. She transitioned in 2009 after divorcing in 2007. Grodzka was a member of the Polish United Workers\' Party at Warsaw University and a political instructor in the Polish Union of Students. Later on she was an entrepreneur and worked in publishing, poligraphy, and filmmaking.
