Posted on 09/02/2025 12:23:18 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Former MP Dawid Szóstak and model Michalina Manios confirmed they were dating and said they want to "focus on what's important."
A politician with Poland’s far-right Konfederacja (Confederation) has said he has left the party after announcing he is in a relationship with an intersex woman.
In a joint interview with the Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza, former MP Dawid Szóstak and model Michalina Manios confirmed they were dating and said they want to "focus on what's important."
The couple emphasised their shared values, such as their Catholic faith and respect for traditions.
Szóstak said they had met through an online platform but gave no further details.
"I liked the photos Michalina posted," he said. "They radiated a lot of energy and femininity."
Szóstak contacted her through the platform and said an emotional connection developed between them.
"Everything happened quite naturally. We became a couple," Manios explained. "We have respect and understanding for each other."
A youth 'in prison' Manios became known to the public in 2011 after participating in the TV casting show "Zostań modelką" (Top Model).
On the programme she spoke about her early life and explained how she was born intersex and raised as a boy until she was 18.
She described those years as like being “in prison," saying “Functionally, I developed as a woman, but unfortunately, I was assigned a male identity, not any other. My body and mind developed toward femininity, but my genitals didn't. I was ashamed to go to physical education classes because I was embarrassed."
Manios legally became a woman at the age of 18 and moved to Sweden to study philology and psychology.
She currently divides her time between Sweden and Poland.
Szóstak was the leader of the hard-right Konfederacja in Katowice and unsuccessfully ran for a seat in the Polish parliament.
Political hard-right
Konfederacja is considered one of the most politically extreme parties in Poland, with party leader Sławomir Mentzen summarising its goals in 2019 as, "We stand against Jews, homosexuals, abortion, taxes, and also the European Union!"
In Poland’s presidential election earlier this year, more than 50% of voters cast their ballots for right-wing candidates, with Mentzen taking 14.8% of the vote and making inroads into the youth vote.
"Not necessarily because of the views he preaches, but because, firstly, he is anti-system, and young people very often do not like the system, they do not like the state and its institutions. But also simply because he seemed cool to them," Dr Olgierd Annusewicz, a political scientist from the University of Warsaw, told Euronews.
"There are certainly a great many people out there who strongly believe in certain isolationist thoughts, are averse to the European Union, or think in very traditional terms in general, on social issues for example, where Slawomir Mentzen has expressed himself."
Konfederacja is also part of the Europe of Sovereign Nations, a grouping of right-wing political parties in the European Parliament.
Smell that? Smells like BS.
I don’t know if this woman is telling the truth or not. But I know that what she claims has definitely happened to others. Some people are born with ambiguous genitalia and in various times and cultures have been assigned male when they were actually female.
It’s a birth defect and in some cases can be remedied.
So, that’s not physically possible in an intersex person. It’s an actual medical condition that got lumped into the rainbow people’s group somehow. She presents as female, but doesn’t have external female organs. She has male ones, likely very small due to the overwhelming presence of female hormones, and while she could have a vaginoplasty, it’s no different from a biological man having one performed. It won’t be a natural, working organ with its own biome, and will create a ton of issues down the road.
You’re a little misinformed, here. Babies are all androgynous aside from a visible sex organ, so while she was born appearing as male, her body developed shaped like a woman’s after puberty hit.
I’ll consider your post mean-spirited but utterly ignorant.
We got a bad rap in one of the Alien movies.
Setting for one was prison for soldiers bred for XYY, based on “science” back in the 1970s that decided all things male were bad, so really male males were really bad.
It looks like a lot of ‘science’ is still bad...
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