“I’m incredibly proud of all Sarah has already achieved and am excited to watch the next chapters in her career unfold,” Blunt Rochester told CBS at the time. Blunt Rochester is running for Senate this election cycle to replace Senator Tom Carper, who is retiring.īlunt Rochester supported McBride in her first campaign for state senate and called her a “tireless advocate and trailblazer”. The at-large seat is being vacated by the incumbent Lisa Blunt Rochester, also a Democrat, who has held the post since 2017. (Alaska, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota and Vermont also each have one at-large representative.) She is now running for Delaware’s sole seat in the US House of Representatives. McBride, now 32, was first elected to Delaware’s state legislature in 2020, winning by a landslide in a heavily Democratic district, securing 73% of the vote.
The video included short clips of Republicans Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, and Representative Lauren Boebert of Colorado – all of whom have supported legislation advocates have labeled as anti-transgender.īefore running for office, McBride was the national press secretary for the LGBTQ+ advocacy group Human Rights Campaign.
“Too many politicians want to divide us, to tell us that teachers, doctors, even our own neighbors are the enemy,” McBride said in her announcement video released on Monday.
The bills include limiting access to gender-affirming care, prohibiting transgender kids from competing in sports and restricting students from using their preferred pronouns. So far in 2023, state legislatures have signed into law nearly 80 measures targeting the LGBTQ+ community, “especially transgender youth”, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. Her candidacy comes amid an increase in state laws restricting the rights and lifestyles of people who identify as transgender. McBride is the only openly transgender person serving at the state senator level in the country, but there are seven other state lawmakers who identify as transgender, according to a national tracker by LGBTQ+ Victory Institute.
0 kommentar(er)
