Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: We Are Wining!

Friday, November 13, 2026

We Are Wining!

When we run for office we win!

I asked ChatGPT: How many trans candidates ran for office and how many won?

Comprehensive nationwide totals specifically isolating how many transgender and nonbinary candidates ran and won in the November 2026 U.S. elections have not yet been compiled in a finalized post-election report. However, organizations such as the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund, GLAAD, and The 19th have documented several notable outcomes and broader LGBTQ+ figures from the 2026 midterm cycle, alongside baseline data from previous cycles.

2026 U.S. Midterm Election Highlights

Federal Office: U.S. Representative Sarah McBride (D-Del.), the first openly transgender member of Congress, won re-election. Across all out LGBTQ+ candidates running for federal office in 2026, 17 of 18 won their races.
State Legislatures: According to The 19th and the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund, transgender and nonbinary candidates won historic first-time seats in multiple state legislatures:
- Alabama: Allison Montgomery won a seat in the Alabama House of Representatives (District 25), becoming the state's first openly transgender state lawmaker.
- Georgia: Bentley Hudgins won a seat in the Georgia House of Representatives (District 90), becoming the state's first openly transgender and nonbinary state lawmaker.
- Michigan: Joanna Whaley won a seat in the Michigan House of Representatives (District 2), becoming the first openly transgender woman elected to the Michigan Legislature.
- Washington: Jaelynn Scott won a seat in the Washington House of Representatives (District 37), becoming the first openly transgender woman—and first out Black trans state lawmaker—elected to the Washington Legislature.
- Wisconsin: Dina Nina Martinez-Rutherford was elected as the first openly transgender woman in the Wisconsin Legislature.
Local Office: In Florida, Quinnie Pérez became the first out transgender woman elected to the Orange County Soil and Water Conservation District.

Broader Context & Historical Benchmarks

Because local, municipal, and school board races are decentralized across thousands of jurisdictions, research organizations typically release full demographic tallies in the months following an election cycle:

2024 Election Cycle: According to the LGBTQ+ Victory Institute’s Out on the Trail 2024 report, at least 1,017 out LGBTQ+ candidates ran for office nationwide in 2024. Of the 909 candidates whose gender identity was reported, 91 identified as transgender, nonbinary, or genderqueer (including 48 transgender women, 9 transgender men, 29 nonbinary candidates, and 5 trans nonbinary candidates), alongside 13 gender non-conforming and 5 Two-Spirit candidates. Across all LGBTQ+ Victory Fund–endorsed candidates on the November 2024 ballot (471 total), roughly 338 won their elections.
Overall Officeholders: Prior to the 2024 general election, the Victory Institute's Out for America 2024 census tracked 1,303 openly LGBTQ+ elected officials serving across all levels of U.S. government, of whom 8.4% (approximately 109 officials) were transgender or nonbinary.

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Quotes

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

A right delayed is a right denied.Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

Martin Luther King Jr.

No one is born hating another person… People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela

We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist
James Baldwin

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.
Newton Lee

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Albert Einstein

“A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.”
― Booker T. Washington

"We will not walk in fear one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason."
– Edward R. Murrow

"The point is that there are always obstacles, whether they seem insurmountable or merely bothersome. The question is not how difficult the path, but whether in your heart, you wish to undertake the journey."
Zandru's Forge

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
You've got to be taught
To hate
And fear
You've got to be taught
From year
To year
Its got to
Be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to
Be carefully
Taught
You've got to be taught
To be
Afraid
Of people
Who's eyes are oddly made
And people who's skin is a different shade

South Pacific
Songwriters: Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rogers

Friday, November 13, 2026

We Are Wining!

2026 U.S. Midterm Election Highlights

Broader Context & Historical Benchmarks

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