{"id":3057,"date":"2024-11-07T01:36:24","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T01:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=3057"},"modified":"2024-11-07T01:36:24","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T01:36:24","slug":"sarah-mcbride-will-win-open-delaware-seat-becoming-first-transgender-person-in-congress-cnn-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=3057","title":{"rendered":"Sarah McBride will win open Delaware seat, becoming first transgender person in Congress, CNN projects"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sarah McBride speaks to supporters after winning the Democratic primary for US House of Representatives on September 10, 2024.<\/span><\/div>\n

Damian Giletto\/Delaware News Journal\/USA Today Network\/Imagn Images<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Sarah McBride, a Delaware state senator, will win her state\u2019s at-large US House seat, making her the first out transgender person to serve in Congress, CNN projects.<\/p>\n

The at-large seat was vacated when outgoing Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester opted to run for the state\u2019s open US Senate seat.<\/p>\n

Despite running in a reliably blue state, McBride emphasized her work leading a bipartisan push to pass paid family and medical leave in the state. She also touted support from unions and work to raise the state minimum wage. Though she didn\u2019t lean on the historic nature of her run, she alluded to a broader theme of respect \u2013 specifically, that everyone deserves a member of Congress that respects them and their families.<\/p>\n

The incoming congresswoman is a close ally of President Joe Biden and has been credited with helping shape Biden\u2019s view of LGBTQ issues. McBride entered Biden\u2019s orbit in 2006, when she worked for the late Beau Biden\u2019s attorney general campaign. Beau Biden was also a strong backer of the 2013 transgender protections legislation that McBride advocated for in Delaware.<\/p>\n

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Sarah McBride speaks on introduction of the Equality Act, a comprehensive LGBTQ non-discrimination bill at the US Capitol on April 01, 2019 in Washington, DC.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The president wrote the foreword to McBride\u2019s 2018 memoir \u201cTomorrow Will Be Different.\u201d The book lays out McBride\u2019s experiences as a transgender rights activists and her personal story, including meeting her late husband Andrew Cray, who she met at a White House LGBTQ pride event in 2012. Cray, a transgender man and fellow activist, died of cancer in 2014 just days after the two married.<\/p>\n

McBride, a former spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ rights group, has made history throughout her public life. In 2012, as a senior and student body president at American University, she made national news when she announced she was transgender in an op-ed in the school\u2019s paper.<\/p>\n

At the time, McBride wrote about her concerns that her gender identity would not be compatible with her goals of running for office.<\/p>\n

\u201cI now know that my dreams and my identity are only mutually exclusive if I don\u2019t try,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n

Four years later, McBride became the first transgender person to address a national party convention, when she spoke at the 2016 Democratic National Convention.<\/p>\n

And in 2020, McBride became the first out transgender person elected to serve in a state Senate, when she was elected to represent a seat in northern Delaware.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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