First Openly
Transgender Black Woman Elected to Public Office in the U.S.
by Katherine Rodriguez 8 Nov 2017
A candidate for Minneapolis City Council became the first openly transgender black woman elected to public
office in the U.S. on Tuesday evening.
Andrea Jenkins, a biological male who lives as a female,
won 73 percent of the vote in Minneapolis’s Eighth Ward, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.
The Advocate
magazine reports that Jenkins ran in the nonpartisan race with a Democratic
Party affiliation and ran on a
platform of raising the minimum wage and increasing access to affordable
housing.
Jenkins, a former policy aide to Minneapolis council
Vice President Elizabeth Glidden, defeated three other candidates in the race.
The former policy aide was not the first openly
transgender candidate to win an election Tuesday night.
Virginia House of Delegates candidate Danica Roem, a
biological male who changed his legal sex from male to female and dresses as a
woman, defeated the GOP incumbent Rep. Robert Marshall to become the first
openly-transgender elected to public office.
During the campaign, Roem supported teaching
kindergartners that people can change their sex in an “age-appropriate”
fashion.
Let’s connect the dots:
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Michael J.
Klingensmith is the publisher & CEO for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, a trustee at the American Foundation for AIDS Research, and a director at the News Media Alliance.
Note: Diana L. Taylor
is a trustee at the American Foundation
for AIDS Research, and Michael R.
Bloomberg’s companion.
Michael R.
Bloomberg is Diana L. Taylor’s companion,
the founder of the Bloomberg Family
Foundation, Emma Bloomberg’s
father, and was a donor for the Robin
Hood Foundation, an advocate for the ONE
Campaign, and a New York (NY)
mayor.
ONE Campaign is
a partner with the International Rescue
Committee.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Robin Hood Foundation, the International
Rescue Committee, and the Human
Rights First.
George
Soros was the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society, and William
D. Zabel was his divorce lawyer.
Elaine
L. Chao was a director at the Bloomberg
Family Foundation, and a trustee at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
Steven R. Swartz
is a trustee at the New
York-Presbyterian Hospital, and was a director at the News Media Alliance.
Emma Bloomberg
is Michael R. Bloomberg’s daughter,
a director at the Bloomberg Family
Foundation, a director at the Robin
Hood Foundation, and was a chief of staff for the Robin Hood Foundation.
Clifford S.
Asness was a leadership council member for the Robin
Hood Foundation, supported same-sex
marriage in New York, and is a
director at the International Rescue
Committee.
Alan D. Schwartz
is a director at the Robin Hood
Foundation, and a trustee at the American
Foundation for AIDS Research.
Michael J.
Klingensmith is a trustee at the American
Foundation for AIDS Research, a director at the News Media Alliance, and the publisher & CEO for the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
William D. Zabel
was the secretary for the American
Foundation for AIDS Research, a trustee at the Foundation to Promote Open Society, George Soros’s divorce lawyer, and is the chair for the Human Rights First.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Human Rights First, the Robin
Hood Foundation, the International
Rescue Committee, and Refugees
International.
George
Soros was the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society, William D.
Zabel was his divorce lawyer, and a director emeritus for Refugees International.
Mona K. Sutphen
is a director at the Human Rights First,
and a director at the International
Rescue Committee.
Clifford S.
Asness is a director at the International
Rescue Committee, supported same-sex
marriage in New York, and was a leadership
council member for the Robin Hood
Foundation.
ONE Campaign is
a partner with the International Rescue
Committee.
Michael R.
Bloomberg was an advocate for the ONE
Campaign, a donor for the Robin Hood
Foundation, a New York (NY)
mayor, is the founder of the Bloomberg
Family Foundation, Emma Bloomberg’s
father, and Diana L. Taylor’s companion.
Diana L. Taylor
is Michael R. Bloomberg’s companion,
and a trustee at the American Foundation
for AIDS Research.
Michael J.
Klingensmith is a trustee at the American
Foundation for AIDS Research, a director at the News Media Alliance, and the publisher & CEO for the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
John B. King Jr.
is a director at the Robin Hood
Foundation, and was a secretary at the U.S.
Department of Education.
Kevin Jennings
was an assistant deputy secretary for the U.S.
Department of Education, and the founder & executive director for the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network.
Alan D. Schwartz
is a director at the Robin Hood
Foundation, and a trustee at the American
Foundation for AIDS Research.
Michael J.
Klingensmith is a trustee at the American
Foundation for AIDS Research, a director at the News Media Alliance, and the publisher & CEO for the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
William D. Zabel
was the secretary for the American
Foundation for AIDS Research, a trustee at the Foundation to Promote Open Society, George Soros’s divorce lawyer, and is the chair for the Human Rights First.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Human Rights First, the Robin
Hood Foundation, the International
Rescue Committee, and Refugees
International.
George
Soros was the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society, William D.
Zabel was his divorce lawyer, is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, and a director
emeritus for
Refugees
International.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Human Rights First.
Patrick H. Gaspard
is the VP for the Open Society
Foundations, and was an executive director for the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
Democratic
National Committee (DNC) is a
committee for the Democratic Party.
R.T.
Rybak is the vice chair for the Democratic
National Committee (DNC), and was a Minneapolis
(MN) mayor.
Eric P. Schwartz
is a director at Refugees International,
and the
dean, Humphrey
School of Public Affairs for the University
of Minnesota.
Andrea Jenkins
Andrea Jenkins (born
September 22, 1961) is an American policy aide, writer, performance
artist, poet, and transgender activist.
Jenkins moved to Minnesota
to attend the University of Minnesota in 1979 and was hired by the Hennepin County government, where she
worked for a decade. Jenkins worked as a staff member on the Minneapolis City Council for 12 years
before beginning work as curator of the Transgender Oral History Project at the
University of Minnesota's Jean-Nickolaus
Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies. Starting in 2018,
Jenkins will represent Ward 8 on the Minneapolis City Council.
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