TWO MEN WHO IDENTIFY AS WOMEN ELECTED TO GOVERNMENT OFFICES AS DAYS GROW DARKER
BY HEATHER CLARK
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
Two men who identify as women were elected by voters on Tuesday, one
running for city council in Minnesota and another seeking to serve in
Virginia’s House of Delegates.
Andrea Jenkins, whose birth name has not been cited in reports, was
elected to the Minneapolis City Council with 73 percent of the vote.
Jenkins began presenting as a female 26 years ago at age 30, and has
been working as the senior policy aide for Councilmember Elizabeth
Glidden for the past 12 years.He also is active as a poet and a transgender activist, working with the Transgender Oral History Project (TOHP) at the University of Minnesota.
Jenkins announced his candidacy for the 8th Ward seat last year after Glidden decided not to run for reelection.
“I am prepared and ready to bring positive change toward a more equitable Minneapolis,” he said in a statement. “I look forward to working with the residents of the 8th Ward, and beyond, in creating the policies and programs necessary to bring sustainable improvement for everyone in our economy, housing, and services.”
On Tuesday night, Jenkins stated that with his win the days of transgender people being “marginalized” are over, as “[w]e don’t just want a seat at the table, we want to set the table.”
“Transgender people have been here forever, and black transgender people have been here forever,” he told the Washington Post. “I’m really proud to have achieved that status, and I look forward to more trans people joining me in elected office, and all other kinds of leadership roles in our society.”
Virginia, Democratic candidate Daniel “Danica” Roem was elected to the House of Delegates 54-45 over incumbent Republican Bob Marshall. Roem works as a journalist and is also a heavy metal rocker with the band Cab Ride Home, which describes itself as “drunken thrash metal” on its website.
“[O]ur songs are about drinking and our shows are about raging,” the band description reads.
“Just because I sing in a heavy metal band while spinning my head in circles and getting paid to do it, why can’t I run for government?” Roem told the outlet Noisey in June. “Why would I have to change who I am in order to run for government? I’ve already had to go through transformative change.”
Marshall, who served for 13 terms, stood against the affirmation of homosexuality and gender confusion in office, and refused to refer to Roem as a woman during the election.
As previously reported, Marshall had proposed a bill last year that would have required the use of restrooms and locker rooms at government-run facilities, including public schools, to align with one’s birth gender. However, in January, his “Physical Privacy Act” was dispensed with no voice vote and no debate, which Marshall called “disgusting.”
“Make no mistake: Neither Governor McAuliffe nor the LGBTQ advocates who want to destroy the livelihood of photographers, caterers, bakers, florists, musicians and others who refuse to ‘celebrate’ same-sex ‘marriage’ will be satisfied with merely symbolic victories,” Marshall opined.
Peter LaBarbera, executive director of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, expressed disappointment that voters chose Roem over Marshall, writing, “I’m devastated to learn of the loss in the Virginia delegate race of pro-family hero Bob Marshall to a man who is pretending to be a woman, ‘Danica’ Roem. Bob is one of the most principled and effective state legislators in the nation, and of course there was egregious media bias in covering the race.”
“[O]ut-of-state liberals sunk in tens of thousands of dollars to help the ‘transgender’ Roem because, well, liberals just can’t seem to celebrate gender confusion enough,” he said.
Isaiah 45:9 reads, “Woe unto him that striveth with His Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the Earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, ‘What makest thou?’ or thy work, ‘He hath no hands?’”
Romans 9:20 also states, “Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, ‘Why hast thou made me thus?’”
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Man becomes first ‘transgendered’ state rep
in US history
EXCERPTS: Political pundits called this the “race of the year.” Marshall has an
impressive record of defending life and marriage and the laws protecting
them. Roem stressed during his campaign that “it’s time for us to take
out those parts of our state code that still make us a regressive
place.”
Roem campaigned on a platform of transgender sex education for
kindergarteners. He released a campaign video about how his “identity
shouldn’t be a big deal.”
Marshall is a seasoned social conservative who has defended life,
family, and religious freedom in the Virginia legislature. Marshall
refused to incorrectly call Roem a “woman” during the campaign, saying,
“You can change appearances, but your DNA fixes your bodily structures
for your entire life.”
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Danica Roem VICTORY SPEECH
First Transgender Legislator
Danica Roem, a journalist turned public works advocate, has won
Virginia’s 13th District House of Delegates seat, making her the state’s
first transgender legislator.
Roem beat out the district’s 26-year incumbent, conservative values and
government transparency champion Bob Marshall.
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Phillipe Cunningham, Another Transgender Man
is Elected to Office;
Andrea Jenkins in Minneapolis
Minneapolis has elected a black transgender woman to its city council in
what advocacy groups say is a national first.
Andrea Jenkins easily won the race for a south Minneapolis seat
Tuesday with roughly 73 percent of the vote. Jenkins spent years as a
policy aide to two previous council members in the same ward.
"She" replaces councilwoman Elizabeth Glidden who did not seek
re-election.
In Minneapolis, voter turnout was strong with dozens of locations
running out of ballots. Election officials says voters helped shatter
the turnout numbers from four years ago.
This result follows transgender man Danica Roem becoming the first
out trans person to be elected to a state legislature
Minneapolis Elects 2 Transgender
City Council Members
Phillipe Cunningham - Election Night Speech
