14 transgender elected officials you should know

14 transgender elected officials you should know

From left: Tyler Titus, Andrea Jenkins, James Roesener, and Evelyn Rios Stafford

Courtesy Committee to Elect Tyler Titus via facebook; Craig Barritt/Getty Images for Conde Nast; Adrienne Catanese for James Roesener NH State Representative via facebook; Courtesy People for Evelyn Rios Stafford

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From left: Zooey Zephyr and SJ Howell

Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images for GLAAD; Courtesy SJ HOWELL FOR HD 100 via facebookThey added, “Imagine my dismay at discovering that a state like Montana, my state, my home, says the government knows better. There’s two boxes, you got to choose, end of story.”

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Courtesy Committee to Elect Tyler Titus via facebook

Adrienne Catanese for James Roesener NH State Representative via facebook

Wick Thomas for Missouri via facebook

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Evelyn Rios Stafford is the sole trans elected official in Arkansas. She is a member of the Quorum Court, the governing body for Washington County, which includes Fayetteville, home to the University of Arkansas. The members of the body are called justices of the peace, which sounds like someone who performs marriages, which Stafford and her colleagues do, but the Quorum Court is also a county board, with power to levy taxes and spend public funds. She was first elected in 2020 and won reelection unopposed in 2024. “Our county government should benefit ordinary working people,” she says on her official website. “I believe in strengthening our county services, ensuring good wages, and supporting and protecting housing. … I’ll continue standing up to extremists and fighting to make our Washington County government more inclusive, equitable, and democratic.