Sarah McBride: 5 Things To Know About First Openly Transgender State Senator
“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.”