Sarah McBride Just Became the First Openly Transgender State Senator In the Nation
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Some good news in the midst of your 2020 election doomscrolling: Sarah McBride is officially the first openly transgender state senator in the country. She won her state senate race in Delaware and when she's sworn in, the 30-year-old democrat will become the highest-ranking transgender elected official in the nation.
We did it. We won the general election.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.— Sarah McBride (@SarahEMcBride) November 4, 2020
McBride's winning campaign called for improving school funding, affordable health care, universal pre-kindergarten, and increasing minimum wage. She took to Twitter to thank her supporters, and sent a powerful message with it. "I hope tonight shows an LGBTQ kid that our democracy is big enough for them, too," she wrote.
The senator is helping to write history, her win coming three years after Danica Roem was elected to Virginia's House of Delegates as the first openly trans state legislator in the country. In an interview with Delaware Online last year, McBride said "I don't intend on serving as a transgender state senator. I intend on serving as a senator who happens to be transgender."
Many of McBride's supporters took to social media to congratulate the senator, from fellow politicians like Roem, to celebrities like Amy Schumer.
Update:
She was ready.
She did run.
And she just won.@SarahEMcBride, I am so, so, so, so proud of you, of who you are, of the campaign you ran and the values you stand for.
I'm so grateful for your friendship and to call you the first out trans state senator in American history. https://t.co/GjPl4IgRh3— Danica Roem (@pwcdanica) November 4, 2020
Congrats to my friend @sarahemcbride and congrats to Delawareans for electing a great leader!!!!!
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