Trans In Politics

I haven’t heard if the trans woman who is running for governor here in Connecticut but there is an article about a trans woman running for governor in Vermont.

Meet the Vermont CEO vying to be the nation’s first transgender governor
Christine Hallquist looks poised to win this month's Democratic primary.
Politico
By Ben Scheckinger
August 7, 2018

MANCHESTER, Vt. — Christine Hallquist leaned back in her swivel chair inside a private room at the Northshire bookstore and dialed up potential donors, trash-talking the plummeting approval numbers of Vermont’s incumbent Republican governor and touting her chances against her Democratic rivals. "It's clear it's for us to lose, which I won't, 'cause I'm disciplined," she assured one prospective contributor of the upcoming primary.

Beating her fellow Democrats and then defeating a sitting Vermont governor for the first time since 1962 are only the beginning. From there, Hallquist, a first-time candidate, plans to reverse the decline of rural Vermont and maybe even solve climate change.
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In large parts of the country, the appearance of a viable statewide transgender candidate would have caused a political earthquake, but here, her transgender status has been largely an afterthought.

“It will be irrelevant in Vermont,” former governor Howard Dean, who recently offered Hallquist campaign advice over breakfast, told POLITICO.

The article goes on to say…

That her transgender status has been relegated to a non-issue — in fact, she’s starting to wield it as an asset — is in part, a testament to the state’s longstanding progressive culture. Vermont was the first state to abolish slavery, the first to grant same-sex couples civil unions with full marriage rights, and the first to legalize same-sex marriage through its legislature, rather than by court ruling.

I wish her luck.

She does have one thing going for her, she has money. Let’s face it politics is becoming a “rich man’s sport.” How many races around the country have millionaires and billionaires running for office?

But I feel it is going to be a long uphill battle for the governor seat, maybe the folks that are coming out to meet her are okay with her being trans but let’s face it there are some who do not want anything to do with us. I think they may be the difference between winning and losing.

Here in Connecticut I don’t think she has much of a chance winning; the Hartford Courant reported…

Jacey Wyatt, a Democrat from Branford, made national headlines when she announced her gubernatorial candidacy. If elected, Wyatt would be the country’s first transgender governor.

But her campaign has gotten little attention since, which she admits is frustrating. Wyatt has appeared at a number of Democratic forums alongside better-known candidates, but a few towns have excluded her, she said.

“The media rarely mention our names,” Wyatt said of the lesser-known candidates.
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Wyatt said some Democrats have been turned off by the fact that she voted for President Donald Trump and she has been extremely critical of Malloy. But she believes running for governor will provide her with contacts that could help her with a future campaign or potentially land another job in public service.

Like I said she’s a long shot and she doesn’t have my vote.