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ESPECIALLY!!! when we are talking about trans women in the United States?????

Sarah McBride is the first and currently only trans elected official in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2025. She was also the first openly trans person voted into a state Senate back in 2020. She was ALSO the first openly trans person to speak at the DNC in 2016!!!

Danica Roem of Virginia (first trans person ever to be elected and serve in any state legislature, 2017), Zooey Zephyr of Montana, Leigh Finke of Minnesota, Brianna Titone of Colorado, Kim Coco Iwamoto of Hawai'i, Alice Wade of New Hampshire, and Aime Wichtendahl of Iowa are also all current state legislators!!!!

Lisa Bunker and Gerri Cannon were New Hampshire's first openly trans state legislators in 2018! Taylor Small was Vermont's first openly trans state legislator in 2021!

Stephanie Byers of Kansas was the first trans WoC to serve in a State legislature and the first Native American trans person (Chicksaw Nation) elected to office in the United States from 2020-2022.

Rachel Lavine was Assistant Secretary of Health from 2021-2024 and the first openly trans person to hold a position that requires Senate approval!!! Amanda Simpson was the first openly trans woman appointed by a presidential administration from 2009-2017!!!

The first known openly trans elected official at all was Joanne Marie Conte of Colorado in 1991!!!

How dare you downplay their accomplishments as trans women in politics by trying to say that trans women cannot or do not maintain important positions within society.

Of course the accomplishments of these women does not mean there are not trans women who struggle immensely or that we don't exist in a transmisogynist society that actively punishes the vast majority of trans women, and being a legislator/government official is not the only form of power in our society, but why do we continue to push narratives that trans women cannot achieve the very things these women have actively done and are continuing to do — ESPECIALLY AS TRANS PEOPLE OURSELVES !!!!