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Our January cover star is @SarahEMcBride ⭐ The new Delaware state senator is making history in her hometown. @UnhappyFem writes thecut.io/3pRdYVp

Every street in Wilmington seems to dredge up memories for @SarahEMcBride, who was elected to represent Delaware’s First District in November, sealing her place as the highest-­ranking openly transgender elected official in U.S. history thecut.io/3pRdYVp

At only 30, @SarahEMcBride, has already spent the majority of her life thinking about how to make life better for the people in her state thecut.io/3pRdYVp

Not only that, but that neighborliness @SarahEMcBride identified, that sense that her constituents really know her and she knows them, turns out to have been an important factor in her election thecut.io/3pRdYVp

.@SarahEMcBride became obsessed with history and politics before she was even a teenager thecut.io/3pRdYVp

At 11 years old, @SarahEMcBride walked into a local Wilmington pizzeria and met then-Senator Joe Biden, who gave her a signed copy of his schedule for the day that read, “Remember me when you are president” thecut.io/3pRdYVp

For college, @SarahEMcBride chose American University in D.C., and in her junior year, she was elected student-body president. It was then that she began to feel the pressure to come out, even if it meant jeopardizing her political dreams thecut.io/3pRdYVp

In 2012, @SarahEMcBride came out to the entire student body in an op-ed titled “The Real Me” in the school newspaper, The Eagle thecut.io/3pRdYVp

After coming out, @SarahEMcBride didn’t give up on politics. Instead, she interned at the Victory Fund and then became the first trans White House intern. It was the first of many history-making moments to come thecut.io/3pRdYVp

.@SarahEMcBride says she often has to ask herself one question thecut.io/3pRdYVp

.@SarahEMcBride: “Grappling with my gender identity ... I think it forces you to confront some really deep existential questions: What is a life worth living? At the end of my life, what will I have wanted to do and who will I have wanted to be?” thecut.io/3pRdYVp

Read the full profile by @UnhappyFem thecut.io/3pRdYVp