Interim elections mark the first election of transgender

Nthe mid-term elections were reached a historical milestone in terms of representativeness in public positions in the United States, with the first election of transgender candidates in six states of the country, according to projections revealed today.

Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan and Washington are the US states that according to projections released by the media will elect transgender people.

The victories in Florida, Georgia, and Alabama are even more notable given the conservative history of these deep southern states of the United States.

The American President, Donald Trump, who promised during his campaign in 2024 to end what he classified as the “transgender delusion”, signed, on the day of his inauguration, a decree stating that his administration would recognize the existence of only “two sexes, male and female”, defined at birth.

In Georgia, Bentley Hudgins, who identifies himself as a non-binary person within the transgender spectrum, conquered for the Democrats the 90th district of the state House of Representatives (low chamber of Congress) after winning, with 92.5% of the votes, Republican Samantha Boston.

With a history as a defender of human rights, among the priorities of the Democrat stands out the desire to stop the “attacks” of Trump, and of the Republicans against the residents of his state.

Another Democrat, Allison Montgomery, won the place of the 25th state district in Alabama, defeating Republican Phillip Rigsby, which represented one of three electoral turns in the north of the state, which turned blue (Color of the Democratic Party) in these parliamentary elections.

Montgomery had been criticized by the president of the Alabama Republican Party, Scott Stadthagen, during the election campaign, when he referred to Montgomery and another transgender Democratic candidate as “men with mental disorders.”.

Quinnie Pérez, of Mexican descent, also made history by becoming Florida's first transgender elected employee, after winning the election for the Supervisory Board of District 1 of Ground Conservation and Water of Orange County.

Pérez focused his campaign on supporting agricultural workers and stressed the importance of protecting local biodiversity.

While in Michigan, Washington, and Wisconsin, attention was focused on the Democratic victories in the main positions in dispute, in the state legislature the day marked an unprecedented milestone: the election, for the first time, of transgender representatives in their respective state assemblies.

Joanna Whaley, hospital chaplain, was the first transgender person elected to the Michigan State Legislative Assembly, while Jaelynn Scott did the same in Washington and Dina Nina Martínez-Rutherford was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly.

Whaley had declared, before her election, that she was a survivor of years of “conversion therapy”, while Scott expanded the historical record by becoming the first black transgender state legislature in the United States.

The Trump administration has attacked the rights of transgender people, particularly in the Armed Forces.

In an executive order, the 80-year-old Republican leader forbade transgender troops from serving in the U.S. military, a decision that was found illegal by an appeal court and awaiting Supreme's decision after an appeal by the U.S. government.

The Trump administration reversed a series of achievements by transgender people, including in the prison system, determining the transfer of transgender inmates from female units to male units.

However, in 2025, a federal judge blocked this decision and, subsequently, the policy adopted in 2026 by the federal prison system, which eliminated inmates' access to surgeries or hormonal treatments of gender transition, as well as support measures such as the provision of wigs or makeup.

In a rare decision without written grounds, but in favor of the rights of transgender people, the Supreme Court (of conservative majority) rejected at the end of October the appeal filed by the Trump administration in September, preventing the application of that policy, without, however, ruling on the merit of the issue.

Only the most conservative judges, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, distanced themselves from the position of the Court, which has a majority of six conservatives against three progressives.