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January 12, 2021, was a historic day not just for activist and politician Sarah McBride but also for the United States. McBride was sworn in as a Delaware senator, making her the country s first openly transgender senator and the highest-ranking elected transgender official.
While the momentous occasion stood in stark contrast to the very different kind of history that was made less than one week earlier, when then president Donald Trump incited an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, the Wilmington native who is often credited with the passage of legislation in Delaware banning discrimination on the basis of gender identity in employment, housing, and insurance has spent the better part of her adult life maintaining focus amid stark portraits of pain, panic, or just plain pandemonium.