As of July, the Victory Fund reports that there are 55 trans candidates running for office, alongside 20 gender nonconforming candidates, 18 nonbinary candidates and four Two-Spirit candidates.
Turner called it “a dark time” and even wondered whether they had anything to do with the gender marker law being proposed: “If I wasn’t here, would this be an issue?”
But the millennial lawmaker has been buoyed by their supporters within their community — and outside it: Turner said they’ve heard from LGBTQ people who have left Oklahoma and feel a newfound hope for their home state because Turner is in the legislature. If reelected, Turner plans to continue their work “reimagining and rebuilding” the state’s criminal justice system and advocating for affordable housing. But the last two years have also taught the junior representative how to pivot, how to always be ready for the unexpected, Turner said.The slogan for Turner’s 2022 campaign is a phrase popularized by disability activists: “Nothing about us without us,” which speaks to the idea that policy should be decided by the people most affected by it.
“We deserve to see ourselves in politics,” Turner said. “We deserve to have someone worth voting for.”Leigh Finke, 41, had already decided to run for office when she heard about the baseless claims coming from some Minnesota Republicans this past April., a handful of state lawmakers shared debunked stories about schools providing litter boxes for “students who identify as cats” during a floor debate over an education bill.
Finke, a multimedia storyteller with the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota, is running to represent District 66A in the Minnesota House of Representatives. If elected, she would be the first out trans state legislator in Minnesota, a state widely considered
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