first out trans person reelected. In her first election, she defeated Del. Bob Marshall, a longtime legislator who was intensely anti-LGBTQ+.
She beat an anti-LGBTQ+ challenger, Kelly McGinn, in her reelection race.Christopher Stone, the Republican challenging her in Virginia’s 13th District this year, has described the U.S.
Supreme Court’s 2015 marriage equality decision as an example of “legislating from the bench,” the Washington Blade reports.
He also said the court’s infamous Dred Scott decision from 1857, which held that enslaved people and their descendants could not be U.S.