Trans MP Anna Grodzka says homophobia and transphobia means people are leaving Poland

From Pink News:  http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2013/02/18/trans-mp-anna-grodzka-says-homophobia-and-transphobia-means-people-are-leaving-poland/

by Dom Sansalone
18 February 2013,

Anna Grodzka, Europe’s first transgender MP spoke out about poverty and social exclusion in the LGBT community on Sunday at the National Lesbian and Gay Federation Conference in Dublin.

The Polish MP explained to the conference that one reason so many people had emigrated from Poland was because of their gender or problems expressing their sexuality in their home country.

“We’re dealing with the second rate position of women across the world and we also deal with medicalised treatments of homosexuality and have experienced torture like treatments of homosexuality,” Ms Grodzka said.

In January, Poland’s lower parliamentary house voted to reject three separate draft laws that would have given legal rights to unmarried couples, effectively preventing same-sex couples from receiving any such rights.

“We talk about tolerance but the way we see tolerance now actually legitimises the treatment of LGBT community today. I don’t need anybody to tolerate me. I demand my rights as a tax paying citizen exactly the same as anyone else,” Ms Grodzka said.

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