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Sarah McBride became the US’s first openly transgender state senator after winning a seat in Delaware. The Democrat was elected in Delaware, defeating Republican Steve Washington. The win makes her the highest-ranking openly transgender official in the US. “I hope tonight shows an LGBTQ kid that our democracy is big enough for them, too,” she said on social media Tuesday night. McBride earned herself something of a national profile when she addressed the Democratic National Convention in 2016, with a speech in which she celebrated the chance to elect LGBT+ candidates across the country.
