{"id":5195,"date":"2020-11-04T21:01:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T21:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&p=179764"},"modified":"2020-11-04T21:34:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T21:34:33","slug":"sarah-mcbrides-victory-is-todays-silver-lining","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/sarah-mcbrides-victory-is-todays-silver-lining\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah McBride\u2019s Historic Victory Is Today\u2019s Silver Lining"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We were hoping for more good news today\u2014a bottle of Mo\u00ebt that I promised I would only open once Trump lost the election is still sitting in my fridge unopened\u2014but in among the chaos of this remarkably close presidential election, there are slivers of good news worth celebrating. Sarah McBride, for example, who today became the first openly trans state Senator in American history.<\/p>\n

McBride, a trans activist and the national press secretary for the Human Rights Campaign<\/span><\/a>, won the state Senate race in Delaware by a landslide, nabbing 73% of votes. This makes the 30-year-old Democrat America\u2019s highest ranking openly trans politician. McBride is only the fifth trans lawmaker in American politics, following in the footsteps of Brianna Titone in Colorado; Gerri Cannon and Lisa Bunker in New Hampshire\u00a0and\u00a0Danica Roem\u00a0of Virginia.<\/p>\n

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