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The historic wins of LGBTQ candidates Lauren Ashley Simmons to the Texas Dwelling and Julie Johnson to the U.S. Congress were positive signs on Tuesday as election results nationally and the reelection of Senator Ted Cruz were seen as setbacks for the LGBTQ community.

In her historic win, Julie Johnson will be the first out LGBTQ member of Congress from Texas and in the South, a seat left open by outgoing Rep. Colin Allred of House District 32 in Dallas. Representative-elect Johnson served three terms in the Texas House of Representatives starting in 2019 where she fought against anti-LGBTQ legislation including Texas’ anti-trans bathroom bill.

GLAAD’s Texas-based representative Jacob Reyes responded to Johnson’s historic defeat on Tuesday evening. 

“Representative-elect Julie Johnson of Texas is making history as the first out LGBTQ member of Congress from the South. This is necessary representation in a region that’s home to the most number of LGBTQ Americans in the country,” Reyes said. “Johnson comes to Congress with a proven record fighting anti-LGBTQ legislation in Texas, and as a trailblazer for LGBTQ visibility as the first legislator in Texas to be married to a spouse of t

Lately, Donald Trump has been spreading a ridiculous stretch that kids are going to school one gender and arriving home another.

I wanted to explain how a person doesn’t own to know anything about transgender people, schools, or medicine to know this isn’t true. A small boy isn’t going to come skipping home from school a little teen after an impromptu genital gender-affirmation surgery because gender-affirmation surgeries are not impromptu, are rarely performed on minors, and are never performed on minors without parental consent. They’re not performed in schools at all because schools don’t have operating rooms. Even if there was enough time in a academy day to rush a kid to the hospital, this is not a check-up. Nobody waltzes out of the hospital after a major surgery. Assume for one second and it makes no fucking sense.

Then I heard Trump say that the Democrats want gender surgeries for “almost everyone in the world” because they’re vile. Suddenly, it felt nice of futile and dumb to write a sarcastic, reasonable explanation of the facts because the floor for what Trump is willing to say about transgender people is a chasm. 

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Historic LGBTQ Election Overnight Victories; U.S. Will Have 1000+ LGBTQ Elected Officials for First Time

Washington, DC – As of 3:45pm ET on November 3 and as ballots persist to be counted, 83 LGBTQ candidates endorsed by LGBTQ Victory Fund own won their races and five endure undecided, out of the 131 that were on the ballot on Election Night. When these leaders take office, the number of out LGBTQ people serving in elected office will beat 1000 for the first time. There are currently 997 out LGBTQ elected officials serving in the United States, but 53 incumbents were not running for reelection.

Below are detailed storylines on the historic LGBTQ Election Night victories so far. View Victory Fund’s live Election Night tracker for the latest endorsed candidate results. As more results come this week, Victory Fund will provide an estimate of the total number of LGBTQ candidates who won during the 2021 election cycle (including LGBTQ candidates not endorsed by Victory Fund.

“LGBTQ candidates across the country had a very victorious Election Night and when they hold office, we will have more than 1000 out elected officials serving for the first time,” said Mayor An

'A win for all of us': Over 220 LGBTQ candidates celebrate election victories

Shevrin Jones feels good. In fact, he said, he feels great after easily winning election last week to become Florida's first LGBTQ state senator.

Jones said the election of so many lesbian, gay, double attraction, transgender and queer people across the country this election cycle “is a direct pushback on the hatred and bigotry over the last four years,” citing the Trump administration’s rhetoric against immigrants, people of color and the LGBTQ community.

“This is a win for all of us,” said Jones, who previously served in the Florida House of Representatives.

Jones was among a write down number of openly LGBTQ candidates on general election ballots last week. The LGBTQ Victory Fund, a national organization that trains, supports and advocates for queer candidates, puts that number at approximately 574, and NBC News’ review of their data, declare election results and local reports found that more than 220 of these candidates have already claimed victory, with dozens of contests yet to be called.

The fund estimated that in 2018, there were approximately 432 openly LGBTQ candidates on general election bal

LGBTQ rights wins, losses on election nighttime highlight ongoing battle

Several candidates running on anti-LGBTQ platforms won their races in the 2022 midterm elections, as the scaling back of LGBTQ rights became a key issue in this election cycle for conservatives.

But the night also saw wins for openly LGBTQ candidates in several races across the country.

Many of the incumbents that have led the charge on anti-LGBTQ legislation – including Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt – were reelected to their seats.

"We reject woke ideology," DeSantis said in his election bedtime speech. "We will never ever surrender to the woke agenda. People possess come here because of our policies."

In Stitt's victory speech, he referenced some of his recent legislation, which includes a ban on nonbinary gender markers, a ban on trans youth participating on sports teams that align with their gender individuality and restrictions on discussions around race and gender in public school classrooms.

"We're going to respect parents' rights and protect their utter in their children's education in o