Transgender candidate to run for State Senate

[stephaniec]

Transgender candidate to run for State Senate

http://cnycentral.com/news/local/transgender-candidate-to-run-for-state-senate

CNY Central/By 13WHAM |Saturday, September 12th 2015

"ROCHESTER, N.Y. (13WHAM) - Next year, voters can expect to see a transgender candidate from Rochester running for a seat in the New York State Senate.

Shauna O'Toole, 57, will be running as an independent for NY's 55th District seat.

She said, "Not everyone is going to accept the fact that someone who is transgender is running for office, and I'm okay with that." "

[suzifrommd]

Shauna O'Toole, 57, will be running as an independent for NY's 55th District seat.

Way cool! Good Luck Shauna!

Though I long for the day when it is so generally known that transgender people are capable and competent that one of us doing something that thousands of cisgender people do all the time no longer makes headlines.

[Traci New]

More great news.

[Venus]

I'd like to see more of her views and policies before getting too excited but it is nice to see a trans girl running for office.