Sarah McBride

Sarah McBride

Sarah McBride is a Delaware State Senator-elect, set to be sworn in January 2021. She is the first openly transgender person to address a major party convention in American history. McBride gained international attention when she came out as a transgender woman in her college’s student newspaper.

About Sarah McBride in brief

Summary Sarah McBrideSarah McBride is a Delaware State Senator-elect, set to be sworn in January 2021. She is the first openly transgender person to address a major party convention in American history. McBride gained international attention when she came out as a transgender woman in her college’s student newspaper, The Eagle. In July 2016, she was a speaker at the Democratic National Convention. In 2018, McBride released the book Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality. She was ranked the Most Valuable Progressive in Delaware by DelawareLiberal. net listed in the 2014 list of the fifty upcoming millennials poised to make a difference in the coming years by MIC. A 2015 article in the NewStatesman predicted McBride would be the first transgender representation in elect office at the U.S.

Department of Housing and Urban Development’s SOBE 2016 Pride Pride. She has been featured in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Al Jazeera, PBS NewsHour, and ThinkProgress. She delivered a TED Talk titled, ‘Gender assigned at birth should not dictate us who we are’ in April 2016. In 2012, Mc Bride interned at The White House, becoming thefirst openly transgender woman to work there in any capacity. In January 2013, she joined the board of directors of Equality Delaware and quickly became the state’s leading advocate for legal protections for transgender Delawareans.