Transsexual Makes Debut in New Polish Parliament

A transsexual woman and an aboveboard gay man took seats in Poland's anew adopted accumulation Tuesday, celebrated firsts that reflect abstruse amusing change in this commonly Roman Catholic country.Anna Grodzka, who was built-in a man but underwent a sex change operation, entered the accumulation anteroom cutting a bittersweet brim and jacket. Several men and women befuddled her hand, while one macho administrator kissed her on the cheek.Grodzka again took a bench abutting to Robert Biedron, a arch gay rights activist who is the aboriginal aboveboard gay being to be adopted to parliament. Both accord to Palikot's Movement, a fresh accelerating affair that became the third-largest affair in accumulation in Oct. 9 elections.Grodzka said she acquainted afflicted by emotion, decidedly back the affair opened with the arena of the civic canticle and back she after took her adjuration of office.It is a allegorical moment, but we owe this apologue not to me but to the bodies of Poland because they fabricated their best in the elections," Grodzka told The Associated Press.