Sarah McBride made history by becoming the first openly transgender person elected to a state senator position. Here’s what you need to know.
“We did it. We won the general election,” tweeted Sarah McBride on Nov.3, after the numbers came in. The LGBTQIA+ activist made history on Tuesday night by defeating Republican candidate Steve Washington to replace Sen. Harris McDowell, a Democrat, in the Delaware state senate. Sarah,30, is the first openly transgender person to hold a state senate position, an accomplishment that Sarah hoped “shows an LGBTQ kid that our democracy is big enough for them too.” Sarah, in an interview with The New York Times after the win, said she was “incredibly grateful” to the residents of her district – Wilmington, which leans heavily to the left – and that she hopes her victory sends a “message to a young person struggling with where they fit and how they fit into this world: that our democracy is big enough for them too and their voices matter. I am hopeful that there’s a young person desperately in need of that message, who, just before going to bed, looked online, and saw this result. For that person, they know that change is possible, and things can get better.” As she prepares to take her place on the Delaware state senate, here’s what you need to know about Sarah.1. She’s a proud Delawarean. Sarah grew up in Wilmington and has been involved in progressive and community advocacy for most of her life, according to her website. She worked for former Governor Jack Markell, Attorney General Beau Biden, and interned at the White House during the Barack Obama administration.
