There were a couple of purely nice stories coming out of Election Night, and this was one of them. Sarah McBride won her state senate seat in Delaware, making her the first openly transgender person to serve as state senator in any state in America. She will also be the highest-ranking transgender person in office in America.
Sarah McBride has won her Delaware state Senate race, making her poised to become the first and only openly transgender state senator in the U.S. and the country’s highest-ranking transgender official.
“I hope tonight shows an LGBTQ kid that our democracy is big enough for them, too,” McBride, 30, tweeted Tuesday night after the election was called. “As Delaware continues to face the Covid crisis, it’s time to get to work to invest in the policies that will make a difference for working families.”
She easily defeated Republican Steve Washington to represent Delaware’s 1st state Senate District. Incumbent Democrat Harris McDowell, who is retiring after 44 years, had endorsed McBride. The district covers Bellefonte, Claymont and parts of Wilmington, the state’s largest city.
“Tonight, Sarah made history not just for herself but for our entire community,” Alphonso David, president of the Human Rights Campaign, a national LGBTQ advocacy group, said. “This victory, the first of what I expect to be many in her career, shows that any person can achieve their dream, no matter their gender identity or sexual orientation.”
This is just a really nice story. I didn’t realize that McBride was also the first openly transgender woman to work in a presidential administration – she interned in the Obama White House in 2012, and she also spoke at the 2016 DNC. And she worked for Beau Biden when he was Attorney General for Delaware. She has big connections to the Biden family. This is lovely!
‘We’ve shown this state and this country who we are’ — Sarah McBride just made as history as the first out transgender person to become a state senator in the U.S. pic.twitter.com/r9SScFepwJ
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) November 4, 2020
Photos courtesy of Getty.
That’s my state! Sarah’s awesome!
I needed to read this. Thanks for posting and stories like this need a like button!
This is a great story! It made me so happy when I read about her this morning. More of this please America.
This fills me with immense joy. It was long overdue. Very happy for her!
Great story!
So proud of her!!! Go Sarah!!!!!
Wonderful story to read this morning!
YAY SARAH!! She is so very qualified and will surely further the causes of her constituents with the intelligence and compassion she has exhibited to date (unlike Republican Q-anon miscreants!).
Her victory brought me to tears. I am on the edge right now, up here in Canada, praying for the sanity of America. I am a dual citizen, and have not set foot in the USA since the turd was elected.
Glad to hear this news! Just a language question, but if she’s the first openly transgender state senator, are or have there been non-openly transgender state senators?
To Moo:I think the point of “first openly” anything is that we have no way of knowing if there have been previously closeted people in the same position.
Thank you for this beautiful news!!! ❤️ Way to go Sarah!!!!