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Rosemary Ketchum wins council seat, becomes 1st openly trans elected official in West Virginia

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Rosemary Ketchum has won her bid to represent Ward 3 on the Wheeling, W. Va., City Council, making her the first openly transgender person elected to public office in that state.

When she takes off on July, she will be one of only four openly LGBTQ officials in the state. There are only 26 openly transgender elected officials in the country.

Ketchum, a community organizer who works for the National Alliance for Mental Illness, said she is “incredibly excited,” and that while she didn’t campaign

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