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The Americans elected two more transsexual Democratic candidates in the election that ended on Tuesday (3). Sarah McBride, 30, became the first trans senator from the state of Delaware – and the country, obtaining 86% of the vote in the first state district for the Senate.
“We made it. We won the general election. Thank you, thank you, thank you”, McBride tweeted yesterday evening, AFP reports. “I hope that today will show an LGBTQ boy that our democracy is big enough for him too”, he added.
To the north, in Vermont, Taylor Small, 26, became the first transgender (deputy) representative, obtaining 43% of the 41% of votes in her two districts.
“Fifth transgender legislator in the country!” Tweeted Taylor.
Their victory comes a few years after Democrat Danica Roem became the first openly transgender legislator in the United States. Roem was elected to the Virginia state assembly in 2017.
The Victory Fund, a political action committee focused on increasing the number of elected LGBTQ officials in the United States, congratulated Small on Twitter, writing: “It Made History!”
The group also congratulated McBride: in a statement posted on the internet, fund director Annise Parker said McBride’s victory is “a powerful reminder that voters are increasingly rejecting the policy of prejudice in favor of candidates who defend equality “, reported AFP.
In the USA, according to Folha de S. Paulo, state legislatures also have two chambers. Thus, there is a senate in each state in the country, in addition to a smaller house, unlike Brazil where there are only legislative assemblies.
McBride also wrote on a social network: “I hope tonight will show an LGBT child that our democracy is big enough for him too.”
In Brazil, about 270 transsexual people are expected to run for this year’s elections, according to the National Association of Transvestites and Transsexuals.
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