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Apr 26, 2022 · Danica Roem is a trailblazing figure as the first openly trans person elected to a state legislature in the U.S. Her new "memoir-meets-manifesto" explores her personal and political journey.
Nov 7, 2017 · Virginia's most socially conservative state lawmaker was ousted from office Tuesday by Danica Roem, a Democrat who will be one of the nation's first openly transgender elected officials and who...
Apr 17, 2021 · Danica Roem, a Pathbreaking Lawmaker, on the Fight for Trans Rights. Ms. Roem, a Virginia delegate who in 2018 became the first openly transgender legislator in the country, spoke with The...
Nov 7, 2017 · RICHMOND, Va. — A transgender candidate defeated an incumbent Virginia lawmaker who sponsored a bill that would have restricted which bathrooms she could use. Democrat Danica Roem, a former...
Nov 9, 2023 · Updated on: November 8, 2023 / 8:22 PM EST / CBS News. Danica Roem has made history Tuesday as the first openly transgender person to be elected to Virginia's state Senate.
Nov 8, 2023 · Virginia Del. Danica Roem has been elected as the first out transgender state senator in the South, winning a competitive, multimillion-dollar race in Northern Virginia that some advocates saw as the most critical election for LGBTQ+ people in the state in recent memory.
Nov 8, 2023 · Democrat Danica Roem was elected Tuesday to become Virginia ’s first openly transgender state senator. With just over 51% of the vote, the 39-year-old defeated former Fairfax County police detective Bill Woolf, a conservative who was endorsed by Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R).
