The Score Card.

It broke records!

What broke records?

The number of trans candidates that were elected to office broke all records including the second trans candidate to be elected to a state legislature following Danica Roem election to the Virginia House of Delegates.

Diverse Gay, Transgender Candidates Win State, Federal Offices
Bloomberg Law
Nov. 6, 2020


Gay, lesbian, and transgender candidates reaped record successes in the 2020 election, increasing their representation and racial diversity in Congress and winning spots in more state legislatures.

At least 38 LGBTQ politicians were poised to be freshman state legislators, including three transgender candidates. LGBTQ candidates won state legislative seats for the first time in Tennessee and Delaware, where political activist Sarah McBride became the first transgender candidate to win a state Senate seat anywhere in the nation.

New York Democrats Mondaire Jones and Ritchie Torres became the first openly gay Black men elected to Congress, where there will be a record of nine openly gay or lesbian House members.
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This year, there were 150 openly LGBTQ state legislators, according to the Victory Fund. All but a handful are Democrats.

As for us…

Transgender representation to nearly double in state legislatures
Voters handed at least eight transgender, nonbinary and gender-nonconforming state candidates wins on Election Day.
NBC News
By Sydney Bauer
November 6, 2020


Voters in six states handed eight transgender, nonbinary and gender-nonconforming candidates victories in state legislatures this week.

These candidates were on the ballot in at least 13 state House and Senate elections Tuesday. Three of the country’s four current transgender state legislators — Brianna Titone of Colorado and Gerri Cannon and Lisa Bunker of New Hampshire — all won re-election. The fourth, Virginia Delegate Danica Roem, who in 2017 became the first openly transgender person elected to a state legislature, is up for re-election next year.

At least five others, including an incumbent who was not previously out as gender-nonconforming, won Tuesday, bringing the total number to at least nine once they all take office.
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Mauree Turner, who is nonbinary, Black and Muslim, won a seat in the Oklahoma House of Representatives, becoming the first nonbinary person elected to any state’s legislature.

Harper Bazaar had this to say,

Transgender Candidates Make Election History

Sarah McBride, Taylor Small, Stephanie Byers, and more earned victories Tuesday night.

By Gwen Avikes

November 4, 2020

While many races have yet to be decided, including the much-anticipated presidential election results, at least five transgender candidates have already decisively made political history.

According to the LGBTQ Victory Fund, an organization that endeavors to increase the number of openly LGBTQ elected officials in the U.S., the number of transgender people currently serving in state legislatures is in the single digits, making Tuesday’s wins all the more extraordinary. There could be even more gains in LGBTQ political representation to come, however, as a handful of other transgender candidates are running for office this election season, including Madeline Eden of Texas and Gerri Cannon of New Hampshire. As results trickle in, the number of out transgender state legislators could more than double, per the the LGBTQ Victory Fund. Here’s a look at some of the groundbreaking wins from the 2020 elections.

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According to the Victory Fund, there are currently 39 elected transgender, nonbinary and gender-nonconforming elected public officials across the country.

Some of those other trans candidate who were elected,

Taylor Small:
Twenty-six-year-old Taylor Small became the first openly transgender person to be elected to the Vermont legislature last night. Small, who ran as both a Democrat and Progressive, will represent the Chittenden 6-7 district along with Democrat Hal Colston.

Stephanie Byers:
Stephanie Byers, a former public school teacher and a member of the Chickasaw Nation, emerged victorious against her Republican opponent, Cyndi Howerton, becoming Kansas's first elected transgender official.

Brianna Titone:
Representative Brianna Titone, Colorado's first transgender legislator, is projected to win reelection to the state's House of Representatives.

Trans candidates are running for office and winning in record number. There have been trans candidates running for office here in Connecticut and they also have been winning.

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In another first…

Biden name-checks gay and transgender Americans in victory speech
Washington Blade
By Chris Johnson
November 7, 2020


President-elect Joe Biden name-checked gay and transgender American in his victory speech Saturday night, which made a call for unity after a tumultuous presidential election and four years of President Trump.

“I am proud of the coalition we put together, the broadest and most diverse in history,” Biden said, “Democrats, Republicans and Independents. Progressives, moderates and conservatives. Young and old. Urban, suburban and rural. Gay, straight, transgender. White. Latino. Asian. Native American.”
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Biden’s explicit reference to transgender people marked the first time in U.S. history a president-elect referenced them in a victory speech.

Many expect one of the first things that President-elect Joe Biden will tackle is…

Biden could take swift action on transgender ban, nuclear weapons
It would take only an executive order to reverse Trump's 2017 ban on most transgender Americans from joining the military
Politico
By Bryan Bender
November 7, 2020


President-elect Joe Biden could get some quick wins by using executive orders to roll back several of President Donald Trump’s Pentagon policies.

For example, very little will stand in the way of Biden’s pledge to allow transgender service members to serve openly in the military. It would take only an executive order to reverse Trump's 2017 ban on most transgender Americans from joining the military.

This is because "there will be no need to redevelop guidance, restudy options, redraft regulatory language, or retrain anybody," concluded the paper published by the Palm Center, a think tank at the University of California, Santa Barbara. "Everything needed already exists in current military guidance and remains a part of current military practice."

Before you go out and celebrate remember Trump has packed the Supreme Court with anti-LGBTQ justices.