Sarah McBride, First Transgender House Rep., Becomes Target of Republicans
Congress after she was elected to represent Delaware's at-large congressional district this month.Having entered politics at a young age, McBride has spent her career campaigning for expanding access to affordable healthcare, advocating gun reforms and supporting anti-discrimination legislation in Delaware to protect trans people.But the 34-year-old already finds herself in the firing line from Republicans on Capitol Hill, with GOP Congresswoman Nancy Mace filing a bill seeking to ban transgender women from using the women's bathroom at the U.S.
Capitol.Newsweek has reached out to Rep.-elect Sarah McBride and Rep. Nancy Mace for comment via email.McBride is the member-elect for Delaware's at-large congressional district in the U.S.
House of Representatives.She previously served as a Democratic state senator in Delaware since November 2020. She is the highest-ranking transgender elected official in United States history and the first openly transgender member of the United States Congress.But even before her career in professional politics, McBride was a trailblazer.
The year before she graduated, she became the first trans woman to intern at the White House, and in 2016, she was the first trans person to speak at the Democratic National Convention.
