More than a dozen openly LGBTQ candidates are on the ballot in Virginia on Nov. 7. State Del. Danica Roem (D-Manassas) is running against Republican Bill Woolf in the newly redistricted Senate District 30 that includes western Prince William County and the cities of Manassas and Manassas Park.

Roem in 2018 became the first openly transgender person seated in a state legislature in the U.S. after she defeated then-state Del.

Bob Marshall, a prominent LGBTQ rights opponent who co-wrote Virginia’s constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman.

Roem would become Virginia’s first out trans state senator if she defeats Woolf. Woolf supports a bill that would require school personnel to out trans students to their parents.

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