Sarah McBride wants the LGBTQ+ rights movement to fight smarter, not harder

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Sarah McBride wants the LGBTQ+ rights movement to fight smarter, not harder

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Story by Orion Rummler (10 Feb 2025)

Sarah McBride was elected to represent Delaware. As the highest-ranking transgender elected official in the country, however, she is also being asked to speak on behalf of all transgender Americans. Every day, she navigates how to govern effectively alongside colleagues who don't recognize her for who she is, as more and more trans people fear for their rights — and are looking to her to speak out.

"We can't continue to fight every fight on the Republicans' terms and turf. That's true for me as a member of Congress, it's true for me as a Democrat, and it's true for me as a trans person," she said. In her view, it's not just the LGBTQ+ rights movement that needs to change its strategy; it's the progressive movement as a whole.

She's not going to take the bait about where she uses the bathroom; she expects that would just invite more attacks... McBride believes the best way she can change hearts and minds, including among her Republican colleagues, is by staying focused on the job she was elected to do for Delaware.

"We have to reclaim the narrative and the humanity in the public's mind of trans people," she said. "The most good that I think I can do is to be a full human being, to not be siloed and reduced to only one part of who I am, as proud as I am of that part."