Posted on 08/12/2018 12:41:37 PM PDT by Simon Green
Whether or not Christine Hallquist wins election in November to be Vermont’s governor, her campaign has made history.
Hallquist is the first openly transgender woman to run for governor in the United States – a remarkable change for a woman who just a few years ago, when she was still living as a man named Dave, was terrified of letting anyone know about her gender dysphoria.
“I was sure when I transitioned, I'd end up sleeping in a gutter somewhere,” Hallquist told Politico.
But the former CEO of the Vermont Electric Cooperative, rather, was greeted with overwhelming acceptance. So much so that she began to think about a gubernatorial run.
Hallquist is just the third openly transgender candidate in U.S. history to run for a statewide office – along with Kim Coco Iwamoto in Hawaii and Wikileaks leaker Chelsea Manning, who recently lost a Maryland Senate primary.
It wasn’t until the 1990s and early 2000s that transgender candidates began appearing on ballots across the country. Iwamoto became the first transgender person to win statewide office after getting elected to Hawaii’s board of education in 2006.
Yet for all the talk nationally about Hallquist’s gender transition, it’s her transition from CEO to politician that has become the biggest campaign issue in the Green Mountain State -- as she touts her turnaround of the electric co-op as an example for how she would reverse Vermont’s rural decline and combat climate change.
“It will be irrelevant in Vermont,” former Gov. Howard Dean told Politico about Hallquist’s gender identity.
Hallquist is touting a plan to lay high-speed, fiber optic cable across the state and create a path for a universal health care system -- and supports numerous progressive causes, including a $15 minimum wage and paid family leave.
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Yes they’re ugly-fying !
Fugly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
She’s got “man hands!”
Man hands.
What a surprise!
NOT!
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The least he could do is get a good wig.
Vermont should be so proud. That’s a dude, man.
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Fugly!
Whatever “it” calls itself, “it” won’t win on a progressive platform.
But not the first mentally ill candidate.
Why on earth would people want to vote for someone to be in charge of extremely important issues who is so obviously mentally ill from the get-go? It’s like voting for a paranoid schizophrenic, a pedo, etc. SICK!
What a great idea elect an openly crazy person
Vermont Dem is 1st openly transgender candidate to run for governor
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That means he’s a shoe-in in Vermont. The only way it(?) could be beaten is if it were facing a transgendered, muslim, black, illegal-immigrant, environmentalist-radical. Eventually, this will become the new “normal” for the Democrat Party.
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