Minneapolis voters elected Andrea Jenkins to city council, making her America’s first openly transgender woman of color elected to public office. She took more than two-thirds of the vote in the city’s Eighth-Ward, which was formerly held by a council member that Jenkins had worked for. “Transgender people have been here forever, and black transgender people have been here forever,” Jenkins told the Washington post. (Nilsen) She expressed her excitement for the future of elected office and looks forward to other trans people joining her and taking other leadership roles in society.

(Andrea Jenkins)