Hard Right, Anti Gay Politician Quits After is Found Out He is Dating an *Intersex Reality Star

A hard-right Polish politician has stepped down from his homophobic party after revealing that he is in a relationship with an intersex reality star. 

Dawid Szóstak, who was a prominent activist for the ultra-conservative Confederation party, and model Michalina Manios, who was born male, confirmed their relationship in a recent interview with Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza.

'Now I want to focus on what's most important', Szóstak said.  

 In announcing their relationship, Szóstak said that he and Manios met online. “I liked the photos Michalina posted,” he said. “They radiated a lot of energy and femininity.” He also said they bonded over their shared Catholic faith and respect for traditions.

“Everything happened quite naturally. We became a couple,” he explained. “We have respect and understanding for each other.”

Szóstak remained in his political party during the start of their relationship. In 2019, Confederation party leader Sławomir Mentzen said, “We stand against Jews, homosexuals… taxes, and also the European Union!”

Szóstak mentioned his leaving of the party in a recent interview, saying of him and his partner, “We want to focus on what’s important,” meaning their relationship and well-being over political battles, Edge Media Network reported. He deleted his social media account after publicly discussing his relationship with Manios.

“Visibility is crucial,” said a spokesperson from Poland’s leading LGBTQ+ advocacy organization, the Campaign Against Homophobia, regarding the couple’s relationship. “When public figures share their truths, it chips away at stigma and ignorance.”

At the start of 2020, Poland’s anti-LGBTQ+ Law and Justice Party (PiS) began declaring regions across the country as “LGBT-free zones” in an attempt to remove LGBTQ+ “propaganda” from the public as a form of “Western decadence” that “threaten[s] our identity, threaten[s] our nation, threaten[s] the Polish state.” Both the U.S. and the European Union condemned the zones as violations of human rights.

By early 2020, roughly one-third of the country had established “LGBT-free zones.” However, the PiS party suffered defeat in the 2023 national elections. Then, in 2025, the party’s last of the state-sanctioned anti-LGBTQ+ zones was finally eliminated.

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*Intersex is.............. 

a general term used for a variety of situations 

in which a person is born with reproductive 

or sexual anatomy that doesn't fit the boxes 

of “female” or “male.”