{"id":16108,"date":"2020-11-05T09:15:05","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T09:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/?p=16108"},"modified":"2020-12-16T14:05:38","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T14:05:38","slug":"us-election-sarah-mcbride-writes-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/us-election-sarah-mcbride-writes-history\/","title":{"rendered":"US election: Sarah McBride writes history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Sarah McBride, an openly transgender politician was elected to the Senate of a state of the United States for the first time in the US elections on November 3.<\/p>\n<p>McBride was able to defeat the Republican Steve Washington and will be the first trans*person to enter the Senate, the second chamber of the United States Congress, in January.<\/p>\n<p>At her inauguration, McBride will also be the nation&#8217;s highest ranking elected transgender official &#8211; the strongest proof that the LGBTIQ* community in the US will not be intimidated by Donald Trump. Trump&#8217;s administration had just overturned a regulation in the summer to protect transgender individuals in the healthcare system.<\/p>\n<p>In her four-year term, McBride will not only focus on LGBTIQ* issues, but will also advocate for health policy issues in general. Among other things, she is campaigning for sick benefit.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-wrap\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIt is my fervent hope that tonight a young person in Delaware [&#8230;] or anywhere in this country can go to sleep tonight [\u2026] with a powerful but simple message: that our democracy is big enough for them too.\u201d &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SarahEMcBride?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SarahEMcBride<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ElectionNight?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ElectionNight<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UnityWins?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UnityWins<\/a> (\ud83d\udcf9: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cmclymer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@cmclymer<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1zMbGSYHeq\">pic.twitter.com\/1zMbGSYHeq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Human Rights Campaign (@HRC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HRC\/status\/1323836785798094851?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>A resum\u00e9 that inspires<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Like Joe Biden, Sarah McBride was born in Delaware. The second smallest state of the US, located on the east coast, is officially called &#8220;The First State&#8221;, because Delaware was the first state to ratify the constitution of the USA in 1787. Traditionally, Delaware is strongly democratic.<\/p>\n<p>McBride, who grew up in her current constituency of Wilmington, identified herself as a girl from early childhood. However, it was a long struggle before she decided to go public &#8211; not only with her family, as president of the student body, but also with her fellow students at the American University. It was only after a Facebook post in which McBride dared to tell the truth went viral that she realised what a huge impact her story could have on the country. That was in 2012, and today, just a few years later, McBride is one of the most famous transgender activists in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Her way into politics was through an internship at the White House, which she completed under the Obama administration. Later, she campaigned at the Delaware General Assembly for a law on transgender rights, which was signed into law in 2013. In 2017, she helped ensure the passage of laws to protect vulnerable youth from child abuse.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, at the age of 26, she was the first transgender person to speak at a national Democratic political congress. Since then, McBride has been working with senior politicians* to improve healthcare in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-wrap\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congratulations to our very own <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SarahEMcBride?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SarahEMcBride<\/a> on becoming the first openly transgender state senator nationwide and first trans member of Delaware&#39;s Legislature! We&#39;re so proud of you for this historic win. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ElectionNight?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ElectionNight<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UnityWins?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UnityWins<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ahthxtdgG4\">pic.twitter.com\/ahthxtdgG4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Human Rights Campaign (@HRC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HRC\/status\/1323800709259759624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Currently, McBride is the national spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the largest LGBTIQ* civil rights organisation in the country. Alphonso David, President of HRC, was delighted with her victory in the election:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tonight Sarah has made history not only for herself but for our entire community. She gives a voice to the marginalised as a representative and advocate&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018 McBride published her life story as a book. &#8220;Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss and the Fight for Trans Equality&#8221; is a very personal story about the LGBTIQ* community&#8217;s struggle for equality and what it means to be openly transgender. None other than Joe Biden wrote the preface to McBride&#8217;s book.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah McBride shares another common ground with Joe Bilden: both have suffered a tragic loss. Biden lost his first wife and two of his children in a car accident. McBride&#8217;s husband Andrew Cray died of cancer in 2014, just three days after their marriage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16112 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot_20201105-150829_Chrome2-615x452.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot_20201105-150829_Chrome2-615x452.jpg 615w, https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot_20201105-150829_Chrome2-215x158.jpg 215w, https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot_20201105-150829_Chrome2-768x565.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot_20201105-150829_Chrome2.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Sarah McBride, an openly living transgender politician was elected to the Senate of a state of the United States for the first time in the US elections on November 3. <a href=\"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/us-election-sarah-mcbride-writes-history\/\"><\/p>\n<p><i class=\"showAllLink\">more&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":16114,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":""},"categories":[1,7,22,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16108"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16380,"href":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16108\/revisions\/16380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}