Comments on: N.H. voters elect country’s first out transgender statewide candidate

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By: Social Justice Solutions – Social Work and Social Justice News and Blogs

Social Justice Solutions – Social Work and Social Justice News and Blogs — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 16:26:52 +0000

[...] This election seemed like a turning point to me, and was the start of many new beginnings. Many have focused on the issues that were up for vote in this past election, and those resolutions which passed such as legalizing marijuana in two states. But what about the faces of politics itself? One can question whether representatives in office have become just figure heads at this point, or whether they still have true power but one thing is for certain: these faces are changing. This past election was a success story in the fight for gender, sexual orientation, and disability equality in government. We had a record number of women elected to office, including the first openly gay senator and an Iraq War Veteran who is a double amputee. Even at a state level, this election saw the election of the first ever openly transgender individual to a statewide office. [...]

By: The Changing Face of Political Officials ‹ Social Justice Solutions – Social Work and Social Justice News and Blogs

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 16:25:58 +0000

[...] This election seemed like a turning point to me, and was the start of many new beginnings. Many have focused on the issues that were up for vote in this past election, and those resolutions which passed such as legalizing marijuana in two states. But what about the face of politics itself? One can question whether representatives in office have become just figure heads at this point, or whether they still have true power but one thing is for certain: these faces are changing. This past election was a success story in the fight for gender, sexual orientation, and disability equality in government. We had a record number of women elected to office, including the first openly gay senator and an Iraq War Veteran who is a double amputee. Even at a state level, this election saw the election of the first ever openly transgender individual to a statewide office. [...]

By: One Shard of Karl Rove's Now-Exploded Brain

One Shard of Karl Rove's Now-Exploded Brain — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 16:17:19 +0000

“A New Hampshire Democrat on Tuesday became the first openly transgender person elected to statewide office in the country.

Stacie Laughton, a Nashua selectman, will represent portions of the state’s second largest city located on the Massachusetts border in the New Hampshire House of Representatives.”

How about some proofreading? Yes, its the STATE legislature, but a district therein is not stateWIDE.

Also, she is indeed the first OUT trans person elected to a state legislature given that Althea Garrison, who did serve one term in the Massachusetts House 20 years ago, was not out when elected and, despite being outed while serving by one of Mitt Romney’s political henchmen, has never actually acknowledged being transsexual.

By: Abigail Jensen

Abigail Jensen — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 15:49:41 +0000

Actually, the title of first out trans person elected to statewide office in the U.S. belongs to Kim Coco Iwamoto of Hawaii, who not only was elected to a statewide office but did so in a statewide, rather than local district wide, election: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Coco_Iwamoto.