"The “Rainbow Wave” in the 2022 midterms will only be the beginning as communities push to change the demographic makeup of their leaders"
Watson ruled that the policy violated the 14th Amendment
The law mandated that trans and intersex people had to undergo sterilization surgeries to change their official gender registration.
“I love that I am trans. And I love that I am queer”
I think more people are seeing that they don’t have to sit in the shadows. They can get involved.
Roem in 2018 became the first openly transgender person seated in any state legislature in the U.S.
McBride is part of the wave that nearly doubled the amount of trans and gender non-conforming candidates elected to state legislatures around the country.