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Sen. Sarah McBride: Trans TV Tropes Were ‘Soul-Crushing’

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elected last month to the Delaware Senate, talked to Forbes about her history-making election, getting involved in politics at an early age, and how seeing bad trans representation on TV as a kid affected her life.In the interview, McBride remembered that when she was just 10 years old, an episode of the sitcom Just Shoot Me featured a trans woman character played by cisgender actress Jenny McCarthy, with the character serving only for shock value and as a target for jokes.When McBride asked her mom if there were people like that in the real world, and her mom said yes, the youth knew immediately that her life was never going to be the same."I thought, Oh, my God, I'm going to have to tell you this someday, and you are going to be so.

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