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As of 2021, 77 transgender, non-binary, intersex, and genderqueer officials served in public elected positions. [1] This represented a nearly fivefold increase from 2018, when only 16 openly transgender individuals had been elected to office in the United States. [2]
This is a partial list of notable firsts, organized chronologically. For a full list in of those elected the U.S., see the main article.. Joanne Marie Conte, perhaps the first openly transgender person to elected to public office, was elected to Arvada, Colorado's City Council in 1991.
Considered to be first openly transgender person elected to a City Council in the United States Phillipe Cunningham (born 1982) Democratic: Minnesota: Minneapolis City Councilman from the 4th Ward (2018–2022) Along with Andrea Jenkins, became the first openly transgender black elected officials in the U.S. [181] and the first trans man [182 ...
This is a list of political offices, whether elected or appointed, which have been held by a lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender person, with details of the first such holder of each office.
Obama also appointed two transgender officials to serve in the administration. Raffi Freedman-Gurspan, a current White House LGBT liaison, was appointed to the United States Holocaust Memorial ...
In 2024, Sarah McBride was elected as the nation's first openly transgender member of Congress. There are 14 openly LGBTQ members of the current (119th) Congress, all of whom are Democrats. One is a senator and the rest are House representatives.
Trump also plans to rescind a 2022 Biden administration rule in which the U.S. Department of State made it possible for people applying for U.S. passports to be able to select "X" to mark their ...
The order, signed during Trump’s first few hours in office, declared there are only “two sexes, male and female” and called on government officials to ensure that no transgender women are in ...