Sarah McBride on her run to become first trans member of the House
It is a typical election year scene: A Congressional candidate working the crowd at a college football game. But Sarah McBride’s simple act of shaking hands at Delaware State University could lead to a turning point in American history. If elected, she would become the first trans member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Asked what that means to her, McBride replied, “It is a testament to Delawarians that the candidacy of someone like me is even possible.”
When “Sunday Morning” first met McBride during the pandemic, she was already making history as the first trans person ever elected to a state senate seat, becoming America’s highest-ranking transgender elected official. Now, at age 34, with almost two terms under her belt, she is running for higher office, but says it is not about her identity as a trans woman:
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“I think that folks know that I am personally invested in equality as an LGBTQ person,” she said. “But my priorities are going to be affordable child care, paid family and medical leave, housing, health care, reproductive freedom.”
A recent poll by the University of Delaware had McBride leading in this heavily Democratic state by more than 20 points. And if she is elected, McBride believes that she will not be the last trans member of Congress:
“We know throughout history that the power of proximity has opened even the most closed of hearts and minds,” she said. “And I still believe that the power of proximity taps what I believe to be the most fundamental human emotion, which is empathy.”
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Story produced by Robert Marston. Editor: George Pozderec.
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