Delaware Democrat Sarah McBride is set to be sworn in Friday to the House, where she’ll be the first openly transgender member of Congress amid a climate of heightened anti-trans animosity among Republicans.

Sarah McBride, who built a reputation as a pragmatist in the Delaware state Senate, will be sworn in as the first openly transgender member of Congress on Friday.

Congresswoman Sarah McBride, a history-making Democrat from Delaware, was sworn in Friday afternoon as the first out transgender member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Representing Delaware’s At-Large Congressional District,

McBride would go on to forge a trail through a rapid series of firsts. During college, she became the first openly transgender woman to intern at the White House. At a reception there, she met and later fell in love with a young lawyer, Andrew Cray, a trans man and LGBTQ+ health policy advocate.

Sarah McBride, speaking on the eve of taking her place as Delaware's lone representative in Congress, said some members of the Republican Caucus who have exploited "bathrooms and trans rights" have undermined their own capacity to do their job,

Three history-making, newly elected lawmakers representing the LGBTQ community will be sworn in to the 119th Congress Friday.

Delaware’s Sarah McBride, Washington’s Emily Randall and Texas’ Julie Johnson made LGBTQ history when they were sworn in to the 119th Congress on Friday.