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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Shaun Walker and Dominika Sitnicka in Warsaw

Trans community in Poland braces for political attacks as election nears

Warsaw Pride parade in June
Warsaw Pride in June. Polls suggest increasing tolerance for gay people in Poland, possibly making transphobia the next political strategy. Photograph: Attila Husejnow/Sopa Images/Rex/Shutterstock

Poland’s transgender people are bracing for an onslaught of hate speech from politicians before parliamentary elections next year after the chair of the ruling party used several meetings with supporters to launch attacks on them.

Jarosław Kaczyński, the chair of Law and Justice (PiS), first touched on the topic in late June, on the same day as Poland’s largest Pride parade took place in Warsaw, when he met supporters in the town of Włocławek.

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