The following report is by WTOP News:
Danica Roem has made history Tuesday as the first openly transgender person to be elected to Virginia’s state Senate.
I’m grateful the people of Virginia’s 30th senate District elected me to continue representing my lifelong home of western Prince William County and greater Manassas.
The voters have shown they want a leader who will prioritize fixing roads, feeding kids, and protecting our land instead of stigmatizing trans kids or taking away your civil rights.
Roem said in a statement released Tuesday night.
She ran against Republican candidate Bill Woolf to represent Virginia’s 30th District in the upper chamber. Roem was among many Democratic candidates in Virginia who defeated their Republican opponents, many of whom were backed by the state’s Republican governor Glenn Youngkin, including Woolf.
Recent results from the Virginia’s secretary of state’s office showed Roem besting Woolf by less than 2,000 votes.
The win for Roem comes as an increasing number of LBGTQ+ candidates launch bids for political office despite the more than 500 anti-LGBTQ+ bills that have been introduced in state legislatures across the country, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.
Danica faced an unprecedented deluge of anti-trans hate on the campaign trail, but she was not phased nor distracted.
Her win tonight will make national headlines and serves as a deafening rebuke to bigots who continue to try and silence the LGBTQ+ community and trans people in particular.
Annise Parker, president and CEO of LGBTQ+ Victory Fund, said in a statement.
Roem did not make her sexual identity central to her campaign, and in fact, it was barely mentioned on her website.
Instead, she campaigned on raising teacher pay, increasing access to health care and preventing gun violence.
Before getting involved in politics, Roem worked as journalist in Prince William County, Virginia. She obtained her degree in 2006 from St. Bonaventure University, in New York.
The Virginia lawmaker is no stranger to making history. She was the first openly transgender person to serve in the Virginia House of Delagates following her win in the 2017 election.
Sarah McBride, who became the nation’s first trans state senator with her 2020 victory in Delaware, congratulated Roem in a social media post, saying, “Virginia now gets one of the hardest working legislators in their upper chamber — and the US’ trans senator caucus just doubled.”
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Not much more to really add to this, other than the obvious fact that this folly that the people wanted (though it was a tiny voter base to begin with) will continue to heap more judgment from the Lord.
[33] He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground; [34] A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. Psalms 107:33-34
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Oh, It makes me want to puke; they talk to “him” and treat him like he’s really done it (changed to a girl), who in their right mind would even vote for that “thing”??? This country is a joke.
The Days of Noah and all the evil and abominations is like it’s turning an already Godless world into the outer limits.
There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper.
We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical.
We can roll the image… …make it flutter.
We can change the focus to a sharp blur… …or sharpen it to crystal clarity.
For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear.
We repeat: There is nothing wrong with your television set. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to…
THE OUTER LIMITS.
I used to watch that, don’t forget the Twight Zone