Sarah McBride’s run to become the first openly trans member Congress is decades in the making
If she wins Delaware’s only House seat in November, Democrat Sarah McBride is poised to become the country’s first openly transgender member of Congress.
WILMINGTON, Del. — Dave McBride recalls the moment he knew his daughter, Delaware state Sen. Sarah McBride, was destined for the political stage.
She was about 11 years old and had a pressing question for her father after he finished teaching Sunday school at their local church.
“Where’d you get that podium?” Dave remembers his daughter asking, throwing him for a loop. Three weeks later, he was in for a surprise.
“I come home one day from work, walk over to her bedroom door … she has an American flag draped over the window, she has the podium, she’s created a cardboard presidential seal and she’s reciting FDR’s 1932 inaugural address. And I thought, ‘We’re in trouble,’” the retired lawyer said with a laugh.
Among Sarah McBride’s key campaign priorities are affordable health care and protecting abortion access.Jana Williams for NBC NewsA decade later, on Christmas Day in 2011, McBride came out to her parents as a transgender woman. Her mother, Sally, said looking back, she’s not proud of how she and Dave initially reacted.
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