(FILES) US Representative-elect Sarah McBride, a Democrat from Delaware and the first transgender person elected to Congress, attends the member-elect room lottery drawing, hosted by the House Administration Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on November 21, 2024. Before being elected as the first transgender woman to the US Congress, 34-year-old Sarah McBride said she expected hostility. A harsh national spotlight has fallen swiftly upon her. "They may try to misgender me, they may try to say the wrong name, they will do what we can predictably assume they might do," she told the TransLash podcast last month ahead of her resounding election victory on November 5. (Photo by SAMUEL CORUM / AFP) (Photo by SAMUEL CORUM/AFP via Getty Images)