Vladimir Luxuria

Vladimir Luxuria
Luxuria at the 2019 Roma Pride
Member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies
In office 28 April 2006 – 28 April 2008
Constituency	Lazio
Personal details
Born	(1965-06-24) 24 June 1965 (age 59) Foggia, Apulia, Italy
Political party	Communist Refoundation Party
Education	Sapienza University of Rome
Profession	LGBTQ+ activist politician author television personality actress playwright

Vladimir Luxuria (Italian: [ˈvlaːdimir luˈksuːrja]; born 24 June 1965) is an Italian activist, television personality and actress. Luxuria was a Communist Refoundation Party MP, belonging to The Union coalition led by Romano Prodi.

She was the first openly transgender member of Parliament in Europe, and the world's second openly transgender MP after New Zealander Georgina Beyer. She lost her seat in the election of April 2008.

In the 2006 general election, Luxuria was elected to the Chamber of Deputies by the Lazio 1 constituency in Rome. She lost her seat in the 2008 election. After the retirement of Beyer and Luxuria, there were no transgender MPs reported in the world, until 2011, when Anna Grodzka was elected to the Polish parliament.^[1]