She Makes Us Proud!

One of the biggest in indicators of the support that the trans community receives can be found in the voters. We win! We win elections, we win ballot questions.

Four years ago NBC News reported,

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. 

This says so much! With all the anti-trans rhetoric the Republicans are pushing out, the voters are still not buying it, we have 

Currently we are about to win a seat in the House! Danica Roberts won her election as NBC News wrote last year,

Virginia Del. Danica Roem has made political history once again after winning a seat in the state Senate on Tuesday. She is the first out transgender person elected to Virginia’s upper chamber and only the second trans person elected to any state Senate in the United States, following Delaware’s Sarah McBride in 2020.

Roem, a Democrat, defeated her Republican opponent, Bill Woolf, by more than 3 percentage points. Woolf, a former Fairfax County police officer, was endorsed by the state’s Republican governor, Glenn Youngkin. 

Stop and think, trans women have won seats over their conservative Republican opposition.

Delaware Democrats back Sarah McBride’s bid to become first openly transgender person in US Congress

AP News

By RANDALL CHASE

September 10, 2024

Delaware in November could elect the first openly transgender member of Congress and the state’s first Black U.S. senator.

On Tuesday, voters in the Blue Hen State were deciding their fall nominees in several political contests, including picking Matt Meyer, the chief executive of Delaware’s most populous county, in the Democratic primary for governor.

State Sen. Sarah McBride, meanwhile, won the Democratic primary for Delaware’s lone seat in the U.S. House of Representatives and now has the chance to make history as the first openly transgender person elected to Congress.

“My heart is filled with hope and gratitude,” McBride told The Associated Press. “I’m grateful, I’m hopeful and I’m motivated.”

McBride said Tuesday’s results reflect the “goodness” of Delawareans who judge a candidate “based on ability, not identity.”

“I’m not running to make history,” McBride said. “I’m running to make historic progress for Delawareans.”

“The only identity I want to be known for is my identity as a proud Delawarean,” she said, adding that she wasn’t saying her identity doesn’t matter. “It’s just one part of who I am.”

We haven’t won all the races that trans people ran in but we won enough!

Back in 2011 I went to the Nancy A. Humphreys Institute for Political Social Work Campaign School at the University of Connecticut’s School of Social Work and I would recommend it or others like it to any trans women who is think about running. I went to learn about running a political campaign. The workshop was taught in-part by Emily’s List an organization that is dedicated to helping progressive women get elected. They are very, very trans friendly, during the workshop they kept trying to talk mr into running.

There are also trans and LGBTQ+ organizations that will help us run for office like LGBTQ+ Victory Fund.

This election we will have a very change of a trans legislator in the U.S. House!

Sarah McBride on course to become first openly trans member of Congress after Delaware primary win

Trans state senator Sarah McBride won the Democratic Primary for Delaware’s lone US House seat, putting her on course to become the first openly trans member of the United States Congress.

Pink News

By Sophie Perry

September 11, 2024

McBride, who made history in 2020 as the first ever trans state senator, easily beat out other Democrat candidates Earl Cooper and Elias Weir for the primary win with more than 80% of the votes.

McBride will face off against GOP nominee James Whalen in Delaware’s House of Representatives election in on November 5, 2024, a seat she is heavily favoured to win as the Democrats have held it since 2010.

“With a heart full of hope – and because of tens of thousands of Delawareans who turned out to the polls – tonight I’m proud to become the Democratic nominee for Delaware’s sole seat in the United States House of Representatives. Thank you, Delaware!”, McBride wrote on Instagram in a celebratory post.

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“Hundreds of thousands of Delawareans will vote for Sarah in September and November, not because she’s trans, but because she’s been an effective, well-respected leader in the state for years.

And that is the thing voters vote their pocketbooks and they see her as the best person to protect their pocketbooks.

Vote Blue on the lower ballots candidates also! But we have to vote, this race is very tight and every vote will count.

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Yesterday I wrote about how the Republican's are intimidating voters who signed the petition to put abortion rights on the ballot and I asked the question, "Is this legal?" well now the Florida Supreme Court has been asked that question.

Supreme Court fast-tracks challenge to DeSantis’ Amendment 4 website

The ACLU of Florida also plans to sue the state.

Tampa Bay Times

By Romy Ellenbogen and Lawrence Mower

September 11, 2024

The Florida Supreme Court has agreed to fast-track a case against Gov. Ron DeSantis and other state officials that alleges they improperly used their official power to advocate against a proposed abortion amendment.

The court on Wednesday ordered Jason Weida, the secretary for the Agency for Health Care Administration, to respond to a complaint from a Palm Beach County attorney alleging that a website created by the agency last week about Amendment 4 violated state law.

The attorney, Adam Richardson, also included DeSantis and Attorney General Ashley Moody in his petition, alleging that they have “waged a campaign to interfere with the election.” Richardson asked justices “to forbid them from misusing or abusing their offices and agencies to interfere with the election for Amendment 4.”

Justices could have dismissed Richardson’s complaint. Instead, they ordered the agency to respond to his allegations by 5 p.m. on Sept. 23.

Once again the Republicans just ignore the laws!

Supporters of the amendment immediately criticized the site and speculated it may violate a Florida law that prohibits state employees and officers from using their “official authority or influence for the purpose of interfering with an election.”

I don't know but that seem pretty clear to me, but the governor is trying to weasel out of it by saying...

DeSantis has defended the state website and an agency advertisement that links to it, saying it was a “public service announcement.”

”We have a responsibility to tell the truth about what the policies are in the State of Florida, and that is 100% accurate,” DeSantis said Tuesday. “It is not weighing in on a specific amendment.”

The question is will the justices buy that argument?