It Looks Like We Have A Trans Women In Congress!

Yes, Sarah McBride is going to be in the 118^th Congress!

Democrat Sarah McBride set to be first openly transgender member of US Congress

Reuters

By Moira Warburton

October 29, 2024

Democrat Sarah McBride is expected to make history next week as the first openly transgender person elected to the U.S. Congress.

She is no stranger to making history: In 2016 she became the first openly transgender person to address a major U.S. political convention and in 2020 became the first to serve in a U.S. state Senate.

McBride, 34, is favored to win Delaware's sole seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, after securing the Democratic nomination in a competitive September primary and is expected to easily win a seat that the three major U.S. nonpartisan political rating services rate solidly Democratic.

"The fact that the candidacy of someone like me is even possible... is a testament to Delawareans," McBride said in a Saturday interview.

However, she sought to play down the history-making nature of her nomination and expected election.

Wow! I bet she will be a burr under the Republican saddle.

McBride is not worried about working with people who oppose transgender rights in Congress, saying she will focus on members open to bipartisanship, even if they do not fully agree with her values.

"If democracy is going to work, we have to be able to have conversations across disagreement," she said. "There is a responsibility that comes with being first, but (that) doesn't matter if I don't fulfill the responsibility of just being the best member of Congress that I can be for Delaware."

She said her priorities in Congress will include passing the PRO Act, which would expand federal protections for workers to unionize, as well as affordable healthcare and childcare.

Notice it is not a trans bill but one that affects everyone!

"The country is faced with two very different visions for the future," Robinson said. "Her historic role as the first transgender member of Congress would be a testament to both the work she's done, and to the power of voters to embrace progress over fear."

This just goes to show you like this morning’s post it is only the Republicans that got their shorts in a knot, that most people we are not an issue.