We don’t want to make history we just want to live our lives in peace.
Delaware state Sen. Sarah McBride, the front-runner in a three-way Democratic primary race to succeed outgoing U.S. Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), would make history if elected as the first openly transgender person to serve in Congress. But that isn’t what she wants to be known for.
“My hope is that we get to a world where it’s no longer newsworthy that people like me are in politics or get elected to public office,” McBride, 33, told The Hill in a recent interview.
McBride as a state senator co-sponsored successful legislation to expand mental health care resources in Delaware public schools, significantly reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions and bolster gun control laws. She spearheaded an effort to create a statewide paid medical and family leave program during last year’s legislative session, drawing on her experience as a caregiver to her late husband Andrew Cray, who died of oral cancer in 2014.
I think we all just want to be ourselves, without any adjectives to describe us.
Townsend said McBride’s gender identity, which has earned her national attention, is not top of mind for her colleagues or constituents back home.
“So many people focus on the sort of celebrity aspect of what Sarah brings to the table, but to know that there she is thinking about a very local constituent services issue or a Delaware-specific legislative issue, that’s really the hidden gem,” he said.
McBride is also something of a peacemaker in the state Legislature, and she has brought Republicans and Democrats together to pass landmark legislation.
That is a great achievement! It says a lot about the Delaware legislature, just look at Montana state lawmaker
Zooey Zephyr banned from House floor for speaking the truth that the Republicans didn’t want to here.
“I do believe that my Republican colleagues have increasingly been able to see me as the multidimensional human being that I am — that we all are,” McBride said. “What that moment reflects is so much more than a single policy that was being passed. What that moment reflects is my Republican colleagues seeing very clearly that the issue of LGBTQ rights that we’re debating in that moment was not some abstract issue, but rather an issue that touched and impacted a person they knew.”
What do you think the House’s Freedom Caucus would do if there is a trans Congress member? But the Delaware Republicans are able to work together with her.
“I’m not naive to the challenges, but I’m running because at a certain point we have to run into the fire; we’ve got to elect folks who know how to roll up their sleeves, dive into the details, work with people who might disagree with them on every other issue with the one right before them, and actually deliver results,” she said.
Activist are a lot like firemen… we run toward trouble. When we see injustice we want to correct it.
A September poll showed McBride leading her primary opponents, Delaware State Housing Authority Director Eugene Young and state Treasurer Colleen Davis, by a large margin.
Maybe, just maybe we will see a trans person who is elected to Congress in 2024.
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