Delaware elected the nation’s first-ever transgender state senator Tuesday night when LGBT activist Sarah McBride won a senate seat in a landslide.
McBridge won her race with about three-fourths of the vote in Delaware’s first state senate district.
According to Politico, 30-year-old McBride is set to become the nation’s most senior elected official who is openly transgender.
McBride thanked her supporters Tuesday, writing on Twitter “I hope tonight shows an LGBTQ kid that our democracy is big enough for them, too.”
She said it’s time to “get to work” on policies that will “make a difference” for working Delaware families as the state faces down the coronavirus pandemic.
Via Forbes, but just about every media outlet you care to mention has run this.