Trans* voting: demand and supply side of trans* politics in Germany
In: European journal of politics and gender, Band 3, Heft 3, S. 389-408
ISSN: 2515-1096
Trans* people and trans* issues have been part of the scientific literature for over a decade, though framed most of the time under umbrella terms such as 'LGBT' or 'LGBTIQ*' and often without further consideration regarding trans*-specific issues. In this article, we take an emancipatory approach and focus on trans* people as political subjects. For the first time, we thus present data on the political preferences, attitudes and voting behaviour of trans* people in Germany, and put them in relation to the parties' manifestos for the 2017 German general election (the 2017 Bundestagswahl). We discuss our findings in the theoretical context of trans* citizenship and trans* visibility. This approach positions trans* people as citizens in the centre of analysis and adds to our understanding of the citizenship of minority groups in our modern societies.