
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


Sarah McBride just became the first transgender person elected to the United States Congress. A Democrat, she worked for the Human Rights Campaign before serving in the Delaware State Senate. McBride will be sworn in in January, but opponents of trans rights in Congress have already mobilized against her: Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina introduced a bathroom bill that would require McBride to use the men’s bathroom, and Speaker Mike Johnson made a statement denying trans identity altogether. McBride talks with David Remnick about the climate in Congress, how she’s responding to attacks—and what she was actually hoping to accomplish in Congress.
By WNYC Studios and The New Yorker4.2
56665,666 ratings
Sarah McBride just became the first transgender person elected to the United States Congress. A Democrat, she worked for the Human Rights Campaign before serving in the Delaware State Senate. McBride will be sworn in in January, but opponents of trans rights in Congress have already mobilized against her: Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina introduced a bathroom bill that would require McBride to use the men’s bathroom, and Speaker Mike Johnson made a statement denying trans identity altogether. McBride talks with David Remnick about the climate in Congress, how she’s responding to attacks—and what she was actually hoping to accomplish in Congress.

90,964 Listeners

38,478 Listeners

3,346 Listeners

3,972 Listeners

521 Listeners

9,189 Listeners

4,048 Listeners

2,137 Listeners

28,492 Listeners

112,194 Listeners

2,270 Listeners

7,235 Listeners

16,352 Listeners

15,855 Listeners

1,579 Listeners

661 Listeners

602 Listeners