Local elections in the United States can be called a true triumph for human rights. For the first time in the history of the country, incumbents took just two open transgender. Moreover, one of them is a woman of African American descent.
According to the results of people’s will in Minneapolis, a member of the municipal Council was Andrea Jenkins. Her election campaign was based on such priorities as affordable housing and raising the minimum wage.
Andrea Jenkins wins Minneapolis City Council seat, becoming the first out trans woman of color elected to public office in U.S. pic.twitter.com/ummf5CcacY
— Rachel Chazin (@RChazinStrib) November 8, 2017
56-year-old Jenkins was quick to congratulate the human rights organization HumanRightsCampaign and Victory Fund.
African-American is not the only representative of the LGBT community, won an election on Tuesday. A member of the legislative Assembly of Virginia was transgender Danika A. Roy.
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Before politics, she worked as a journalist in the publications of the Gainesville Times and Prince William Times.
33-year-old winner managed to win the chair at his chief opponent, 73-year-old Republican Robert Marshall, a well-known conservative views. The politician does not hide the negative attitude towards representatives of sexual minorities and positioning itself as a «chief homophobe,» Virginia. For this reason, he even refused a pre-election debate with Roy. The gap between the candidates was about 10% in favor of the latter. Now Marshall is forced to give the opponent a position he occupied since 1992.
