Danica Roem has become the first openly transgender person to be elected to any state legislature in the United States.
- She won a seat in the Virginia House of Delegates, defeating Republican incumbent Robert Marshall in the 13th District.
- She defeated most socially conservative state lawmaker Del. Robert G. Marshall
- Roem will be the first transgender member of the house of delegates and the second trans woman to be elected to a statehouse. Althea Garrison, a black woman who won as a Republican in Massachusetts in 1993, was the first.
