The 2017 elections were also a coming-of-age party for the transgender community in local races across the U.S. Openly transgender candidates surged to victory in such diverse places as Minneapolis, Minnesota, Erie, Pennsylvania, Prince William County, Virginia, Palm Springs, California, Doraville, Georgia and Somersworth, New Hampshire. The TransUnited Political Action Committee introduced its Breakthrough Initiative, […]
Danica Roem: This is Who I Am
In January of 2017, Virginia’s 13th district delegate, conservative Republican Bob Marshall, authored a bill that would have mandated that people use bathrooms according to the gender shown on their birth certificates. The bill failed in committee, but was par for the course for the 26-year veteran of the Virginia House of Delegates, who once […]