Tessa Ganserer is a German politician who has served as a member of the Landtag of Bavaria since October 7, 2013, representing the constituency of Middle Franconia on the Alliance '90/The Greens list. During the 2021 German Federal Election Ganserer was elected to the Bundestag from Bavaria on the Alliance '90/The Greens list. She will take her seat on October 26, 2021. In 2018 Ganserer came out as a transgender woman, becoming the first openly transgender person in a German state or federal parliament.