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More Trans People Are Running For Office To Fight Anti LGBTQ+ Laws

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A new survey has revealed that the anti-LGBTQ+ legislative wave is pushing more trans people to run for office. The Victory Institute, an advocacy group that supports LGBTQ+ candidates for office, released a report last week that examines the "motivations, experiences, and challenges of LGBTQ+ candidates in the United States.” Conducted alongside the LGBTQ+ Politics Research Initiative at Loyola University, it surveyed 474 candidates from 49 states, Washington D.C., and Puerto Rico about what it’s like to be an LGBTQ+ person running for office today. Most candidates (79.3%) said that their top motivation to run was simply a desire to improve their local community. Yet trans people were the most likely demographic to cite anti-LGBTQ+ legislation as a top motivation, with 14.3% of trans women and 10.3% of gender-nonconforming, genderqueer, and nonbinary respondents citing the legislative wave as their top factor. Almost half of LGBTQ+ candidates also cited a desire to increase LGBTQ+ representation in office as a top motivation (45.8%). The year 2022 saw the highest number of queer and trans candidates in history, with at least one out LGBTQ+ person running for office in every state. Since 2017, when the Victory Institute began releasing data on LGBTQ+ candidates, the number of out LGBTQ+ elected officials has almost doubled, from 448 in 2017 to 1,043 in 2022.

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  • Adrianna Tender

    A transgender advocate and health care practitioner. She has extensive education and experience in HIV prevention and health care that relates to transgender individuals. She currently works as the Program Coordinator with Transinclusive Group and is the owner of Tender Loving Care Trans Mentoring. She received the Bishop SF Makalani Mahee Transgender Advocate Award in 2019 and has received many other awards. She serves on the National Board of Governors of the Human Rights Campaign and is on the Board of Directors for the Dolphin Democrats and Black LGBTQ Liberation. She is a member of several civic and political organizations like NAACP, and the Florida LGBTQ Democratic Caucus, and attends Antioch Missionary Baptist Church.

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