Madeline Eden Campaigns for Historic Win -- She could become the first openly transgender member of

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She could become the first openly transgender member of the Texas legislature.


Madeline Eden, a forty-five-year-old candidate, is campaigning to help flip the Texas state legislature from Republican to Democratic control. Incidentally, if elected, she would become the first transgender member of the Texas House of Representatives.

Eden’s campaign is, however, not defined by her gender identity. She brings a brilliant mind and a deep passion for solving problems to her candidacy.

A Texan for Four Decades

Eden was born in 1975 in Jefferson City, Missouri. At the age of five, her parents moved to Texas, and she grew up in the San Antonio area. In her twenties, she moved to Austin, where she has continued to live. She is a resident of Bastrop, about 30 miles southeast of Austin, where she and her wife of 17 years are raising their four children.

Eden is the Democratic candidate for the Texas House of Representatives District 17 , which serves Bastrop, Caldwell, Lee, Gonzales, and Karnes counties {counties that run from southeast to northeast of San Antonio}. Her opponent is Republican John Cyrier, who is running for a fourth term. The district has a population of approximately 164,000 citizens, and has a racial makeup of about 52% white, and 48% Black, Hispanic, and other. Eden ran unopposed in the primary election.

Read more: http://www.outsmartmagazine.com/2020/09/madeline-eden-campaigns-for-historic-win/