The first openly transgender politician in Congress didn’t hold back in responding to Trump’s controversial executive order
On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed a number of executive orders, among which the one that states that the US government will only recognize two genders – male and female.
The order defines a female as a “a person belonging, at conception to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell,” while a male is a “person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell.”
As expected, this decision caused a stir among those fighting for the rights of the members of the LGBTQ+ community.
Among them, the first openly transgender person elected to Congress, Sarah McBride.
The Delaware representative spoke at the HRC Greater New York Dinner on Monday, February 3, saying that LGBTQ+ people live “rent free in the minds” of the Republican leaders who are part of Trump’s administration.
“I enter Congress at a moment of uncertainty and fear for so many in our country – a time that will test our Constitution, our progress, and our own very compassion,” McBride started her speech.
“In less than two weeks at a time of domestic and global crisis – this new administration has diverted the resources of the federal government to target transgender people.
