If You Want A Trans Congressmember, Gotta Support The Transpeeps Running At The Local And State Levels
Transgriot
By Monica Roberts
29 June, 2010
http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2010/06/if-you-want-trans-congressmember-gotta.html (http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2010/06/if-you-want-trans-congressmember-gotta.html)
It has been almost twelve years since Georgina Beyer became the first open transperson elected to a national legislative body when she was elected to the New Zealand Parliament in November 1999.
In the United States the highest elective office a transperson has yet to successfully achieve is Kim Coca Iwamoto's election in 2006 to the Hawaii State Board of Education.
Others have attempted to get elected to state legislatures or large city councils but have not been successful in doing so.