Marie Cau has made history in France after becoming the first trans person to be elected as mayor in the country’s history. She was unanimously voted in as mayor by the council of Tilloy-lez-Marchiennes, in northeastern France on Saturday (23 May).
Cau was elected as a councillor by the residents of the region, which number around 600, during municipal elections in March.
She ran on a platform of ecological sustainability and building the local economy. Speaking to the AFP, she insisted that she