re: #5 Belafon

So Danica isn’t the first transgender, but still awesome, and now I know more history:

en.wikipedia.org

Althea Garrison (born October 7, 1940)[1] is an American politician from Boston, Massachusetts who was elected as a Republican to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1992 and served one term from 1993 to 1995. Both before and after Garrison’s successful bid for office, she has run unsuccessfully in multiple elections for the state legislature and Boston City Council, as a Republican, Democrat, or independent, which has resulted in her being described in the media as a “perennial candidate”.[2][3] Garrison is also known as the first transgender or transsexual person to be elected to a state legislature in the United States.[4][5]

Edit: Now, some are pointing out in my readings that she wasn’t “out” as trans at the time of her win. So, more to learn.