Sarah McBride

January 5, 2024
Lgbt Rights Activist

Quick Facts

Sarah McBride
Full Name Sarah McBride
Occupation Lgbt Rights Activist
Date Of Birth Aug 9, 1990(1990-08-09)
Age 34
Birthplace Wilmington
Country United States
Birth City Delaware
Horoscope Leo

Sarah McBride Biography

Name Sarah McBride
Birthday Aug 9
Birth Year 1990
Place Of Birth Wilmington
Home Town Delaware
Birth Country United States
Birth Sign Leo
Parents Sally McBride, David McBride
Spouse Andrew Cray

Sarah McBride is one of the most popular and richest Lgbt Rights Activist who was born on August 9, 1990 in Wilmington, Delaware, United States. Sarah McBride (born August 9 in 1990) is an American transgender rights activist. McBride is the National Press Secretary for the Human Rights Campaign. McBride was the subject of national attention when she revealed she was transgender in her college, while she was the president of the student body for American University.

The couple got married in August 2014. McBride got married to her boyfriend Andrew Cray after he received an advanced cancer diagnosis. Episcopal bishop Gene Robinson presided at their wedding ceremony. After their wedding, four days later, Cray died from cancer.

On July 28, 2016, McBride became the first openly transgender person to speak at a national party convention when she spoke at the 2016 Democratic National Convention. In her speech, which lasted less than four minutes, McBride paid tribute to her late husband Andrew Cray and his commitment to LGBT rights.

In April 2016, McBride delivered a TED Talk titled, “Gender assigned to us at birth should not dictate who we are.” She also served on the steering committee of Trans United for Hillary, an effort to educate and mobilize transgender people and their allies in support of Hillary Clinton.

In January of 2013, McBride joined the board of directors of Equality Delaware and quickly became the state’s most prominent advocate in the fight for protections under law and anti-hate crime laws for transgender Delawareans. McBride along with her family members led the campaign to lobby to pass legislation that would protect Delawareans from discrimination based on gender identity and expression in the workplace, housing insurance, and other public accommodation. In addition to being the principal spokesperson for the bill McBride’s close connection and friendship with governor Jack Markell and Attorney General Beau Biden was credited with making both elected officials stand in support of the legislation. The legislation was passed by the state senate on an unanimity of just one vote, and the state house with a majority decision of 24-17. This amended law was passed through the state legislature. It was immediately was signed into law in the presence of Governor Jack Markell in June 2013.

Sarah McBride Net Worth

Net Worth $5 Million
Source Of Income Lgbt Rights Activist
House Living in own house.

Sarah McBride is one of the richest Lgbt Rights Activist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Sarah McBride 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Sarah McBride was born in Wilmington, Delaware to David McBride and Sally McBride. Before her debut, McBride was a campaign staffer in Delaware and worked on various campaigns, including Delaware attorney general Beau Biden’s campaign in 2010 as well as Governor Jack Markell’s campaign in 2008. As of 2011, McBride got elected as the president of the Student Body at American University. In her final week as president of the student body, McBride gained international attention after she announced that she was transgender in the student newspaper of her college, The Eagle.

McBride’s upcoming release was covered in NPR, The Huffington Post and Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation. Following her announcement, McBride got a call from Delaware Attorney General Biden telling her, “Sarah, I just wanted you to know, I’m so proud of you. I love you, and you’re still a part of the Biden family.” Vice-President Joe Biden shared similar sentiments and said the Biden family was pleased with her and proud for her. in 2012 McBride worked as an intern at The White House and became the first transgender woman who was openly gay working in the White House in any role. McBride was employed within the White House Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs, in which she was responsible for LGBT issues. In a speech she delivered in May of 2015, Second Lady Jill Biden told Sarah’s story. She said “we believe young people should be valued for who they are, no matter what they look like, where they’re from, the gender with which they identify, or who they love.”

After the passage of Delaware’s gender identity protections and hate crimes legislation, McBride worked on the LGBT Progress team at the Center for American Progress. McBride has spoken at a number of colleges and LGBT events, including the Human Rights Campaign National Dinner, the Human Rights Campaign Los Angeles Dinner, the Victory Fund National Brunch, the University of Pennsylvania, and Gettysburg College. McBride was ranked the Most Valuable Progressive in Delaware by DelawareLiberal.net listed in the 2014 list of the Trans 100, and named one of the fifty upcoming millennials poised to make a difference in the coming years by MIC.com. A 2015 article in the NewStatesman on transgender representation in elective office predicted McBride would be the first transgender American elected to high public office. McBride was a panelist at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s “GLOBE Pride 2016” on youth and workplace bullying. McBride has been featured in The New York Times, The Huffington Post, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Al Jazeera, PBS NewsHour, Teen Vogue, North Carolina Public Radio, The New Yorker, MSNBC, ThinkProgress, Buzzfeed, and NPR.

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Who is Sarah McBride Dating?

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