The first
Oh goody goody, another first.
State Sen[ator] Sarah McBride will be Delaware’s next representative in Congress, becoming the first transgender person elected to federal office in the history of the United States.
But not, by quite a long way, the first man elected to federal office in the history of the United States.
That’s part of the fun of trans for men, you know – getting to playact being oppressed and ignored and shoved aside All This Time. When you pause to remember they’re men the game crumbles into nothing.
She will assume the congressional seat vacated by U.S. Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, who will replace retiring U.S. Sen. Tom Carper.
Man replaces woman. Big news.
Have you noticed the term “transgender person” being used rather than “trans woman”?
The word woman is slowly being obliterated entirely.
Barbyrabaker: I’m fine with them not using “woman” for male people. But what I think is happening is that they really do NOT want everyone realising that it’s always the MEN with ponytails doing the sports cheating, the MEN in skirts getting the plum jobs. The women with mastectomies get to have babies and run interference for the men. But when a man in a dodgy wig commits a violent sexual crime, you’ll see that it’s always “woman” not “transgender person”.
Interesting, Piglet. I hadn’t thought of that, but yeah, they do avoid the word ‘transwoman’ all the time. I don’t know that it would matter if they didn’t, since most people don’t know whether a transwoman is really a male or a female.
Also, in discussions, they will get extremely aggressive if you use “transwoman” rather than “trans woman”. This is because the former is considered to denote a category unto itself, while the latter is more perceived as saying that the individual is simply in a different subset of the category “woman”. The former, of course, is infinitely more accurate, and would actually be useful in designing accommodations in prisons, medical care and so forth to actually meet the needs of transwomen. But it would run against the Big Lie, and so cannot be uttered.
Probably not the first cross dressing man elected to federal office but certainly the first one who cross dresses full time.