Sarah McBride To Be First Transgender Person In US Congress

McBride was born and raised in Wilmington, Delaware. Politics piqued her interest since she was young, as her parent told NBC. At a young age, she participated in several political campaigns such as Beau Biden’s initial campaign and re-election for her hometown’s attorney general. At the age of 21, in 2011, she came out as a trans woman and shared the information via her university student paper and a viral post on Facebook, as reported by The Guardian.

McBride has since devoted herself to working on LGBTQ+ rights in her state and beyond. She worked on anti-discrimination laws in Delaware to protect transgender people. Later, she became the national press secretary for the Human Rights Campaign, a group that advocates for LGBTQ+ rights. McBride also taught public policy at the University of Delaware and wrote a memoir in 2018 called Tomorrow Will Be Different, according to her state senate biography.

However, her win to the House seat is not the first time she has made history in her career in politics. Followed bybecoming a Democratic member of the Delaware Senate, she became the first trans woman to get elected to the state senate in 2020. In 2012, she was the first trans person to work at the White House as an intern during the Obama-Biden administration. In 2016, she made history as the first transgender person to speak at the Democratic National Convention.