“Sarah McBride has won her election in Delaware to be sworn in January 3 as the first openly transgender member of Congress in U.S. history. She will become the highest-ranking trans public official nationwide and the first openly trans person elected to any federal office.
She did the same in January 2021 when she became the country’s first openly transgender state senator. (There are a few others now.) She’s achieved other firsts in her career: the first openly trans person to work at the White House when she interned for the Obama administration starting in 2012 and the first openly trans person to ever speak at a major party’s national convention when she spoke at the 2016 Democratic National Convention…”
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