Danica Roem has an agenda. She’s going to fix the roads & advance equality.

Virginia state delegate Danica Roem
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Earlier this month, Danica Roem, a former reporter and trans woman from Manassas won her second election to the Virginia House of Delegates, becoming the first openly transgender legislator to win reelection.

Democrats swept into power this past election cycle, capturing majorities in both the State House and Senate chambers. For the first time in 20 years, Democrats in Virginia control the state legislature, as well as the governor’s mansion, and Roem says she’s ready to take action for her constituents.

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She was attacked relentlessly throughout the campaign, facing particularly personal attacks on her transgender status from Family Foundation Action over the last two weeks of the campaign.

The attacks claimed she’d pursue an “EXTREME social agenda,” which would “force all insurance companies to pay for harmful and unnecessary ‘gender transition’ surgeries.”

The bill, which would ban health care discrimination against LGBTQ people in the state, didn’t originate from Roem’s desk, but she supports its passage nonetheless.

Roem addressed her support for that bill and the rest of her sweeping second-term legislative agenda in a recent interview with LGBTQ Nation.

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