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.<br /><br />Key messages<br /><ul><li>Left-wing and progressive parties address trans* issues and have a detailed offer for trans* voters in Germany.</li><br /><li>Conservative parties neglect trans* issues while the far right openly campaigns against trans* rights.</li><br /><li>Trans* voters in our survey support mostly left-wing and progressive parties.</li><br /><li>The most important issues for the trans* voters in our survey were discrimination and trans*phobia.</li></ul>
Die vorliegende explorative Studie widmet sich dem Wahlverhalten von LGBTIQ-Personen im Kontext der Abgeordnetenhauswahl in Berlin (2016) und der Gemeinderatswahl in Wien (2015). Untersucht wird erstens die queer-politische Agenda der Parteien und zweitens das Wahlverhalten von LGBTIQ, einer bislang in der Wahlforschung weitestgehend ignorierten Bevölkerungsgruppe. Der Vergleich der untersuchten Wahlprogramme zeigt, dass queer-politische Themen Marker für Differenz und Konkurrenz im Parteienwettbewerb darstellen. Die Ergebnisse der Onlinebefragung zeigen, dass die Methode eines selbstselektiven Samples geeignet ist, um die politischen Präferenzen von LGBTIQ-Personen zu untersuchen. Die Parteipräferenz für grüne Parteien ist sowohl in Berlin als auch in Wien ausgeprägt. Jenseits dessen gibt es indes in Berlin wie auch in Wien LGBTIQ-Personen, die rechtspopulistische Parteien und Positionen unterstützen.
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