Virginia Democrat Danica Roem was projected to win her election Tuesday, according to Decision Desk HQ, becoming the commonwealth’s first openly transgender state senator and the first out transgender person elected to a state Senate anywhere in the South.
Roem, 39, defeated former Fairfax County police detective Bill Woolf, a conservative Republican endorsed by Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin ®, who vowed to bar transgender athletes from competing on school sports teams if elected.
“You attack trans kids in my district at your own political peril,” Roem told The Hill in a recent interview.
and she’s also basically a road and public transportation nerd (which is how she originally got elected) :)
Ah I thought that was her! Saw her on a podcast interview some time ago and was remembering the story of how she ran for the state house originally because of an issue with a road that was getting ignored.