The results of the election were overwhelmingly bad but in the debris there was one piece of good news and that was the election of the first transgender person to the House of Representatives.
Sarah McBride, a Delaware state senator, has made history as the first out transgender person elected to the US House of Representatives.
…McBride, 34, won Delaware’s at-large House seat in Tuesday’s general election against the Republican candidate John Whalen III, a former Delaware state police officer and businessman. The House seat, Delaware’s only one, has been Democratic since 2010, the New York Times reported.
…In 2011, at the age of 21, McBride came out as a trans woman in her university’s student paper and in a viral Facebook post.
Since then, McBride has worked on LGBTQ+ issues within and beyond her state. She worked on anti-discrimination legislation in Delaware that provided protection to trans people. She later served as the national press secretary for the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ+ advocacy group. McBride also taught public policy at the University of Delaware and wrote a 2018 memoir entitled Tomorrow Will Be Different, as her state senate biography notes.
The LGBTQ community, especially the transgender part of it, is going to face a difficult future given the overt hostility that has been expressed against them in this ugly campaign by those who will now have much more power than they did before. Now more than ever, we need to rally round and support them.
Crumbs of good news are better than nothing. Hurrah!
gotdam tho she is going to have the world’s ugliest time in the workplace.
I feel like there’s something similar to a prisoner’s dilemma with voting issues like this. You keep finding the other person has sold you out. For some trivial reason. Like thinking the rich narcissist whose only concern is enriching himself will help their economic situation. Its like trickle down economics but with even more assholes between you and the money that’s supposedly going to reach you. Eventually.
How does anyone even believe that?
But if you treat them the way they’re treating you then the only people that get what they want are the ones who can buy politicians either way things go. And those people are actually better off if the rest of us are in a bad way.