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Creating this draft article as the US section of List of transgender political office-holders has become kind of unwieldy. Using information from that article, formatted by type of office first and then chronologically, similar to List of LGBT politicians in the United States. Definitely look forward to feedback/possibilities for this new list. ~Malvoliox (talk | contribs) 22:46, 4 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Also want to note -- I very much welcome a move if there's a better idea of what to call this. Could be transgender politicians in the US or political office-holders like the international list? ~Malvoliox (talk | contribs) 20:27, 5 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've added List of transgender public officeholders in the United States to "See also" sections for all people included in this list. Thanks for creating! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 23:00, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Rachel Levine

I looked through this list and didn't find any mentions of Rachel Levine who is well known for serving in the United States Department of Health and Human Services under Biden's administration. I wasn't sure how her involvement in American politics would be defined in the current list of categories. Rylee Amelia (talk) 04:29, 5 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It’s probably a question of scoping of the list, currently it appears to focus primarily on elected positions.

But if we expand it to also include appointed positions, then yes, we can create a new national government section and add her as an appointed executive office holder, which she is the highest ranking openly transgender person in the US. Raladic (talk) 04:47, 5 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Self-reply - I added the federal section now and included her, alongside with adding the information to the lead, noting her holding the highest office and having been appointed to it. Raladic (talk) 05:10, 5 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for adding this section! You mentioned that the list seemed to focus on elected positions, but from what I've noticed, there are many appointed officials as well, such as Lauren Scott and Amanda Simpson. Representing Levine in a federal section makes sense through this preexisting context. I also feel like it will be important to have this section for the inevitable other trans people in federal positions that will be either appointed or elected. I've done some research and seen some consideration surrounding Sarah McBride or Maebe A. Girl as possible first trans congress members in this upcoming election. Can't wait to watch this list expand! Rylee Amelia (talk) 08:00, 5 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Just coming on to agree -- it makes sense to include appointed positions, and a federal section is both a great joy and fitting to the purpose of this article! ~Malvoliox (talk | contribs) 14:40, 5 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Double entries?

Hi,

Wondering what people think about including multiple listings for the same person in different offices -- local, state, and federal or executive/legislative. Right now, we have the same person appearing as a mayor and city council person; another as a state senator and US representative; another for a former executive role and current legislative one, both at the state level.

Would we like to retain multiple entries for each person, or does it make sense to go with the current/most recent type of office (or the highest office if, say, they served statewide before serving at a local level) and keep additional information in the notes? I don't know what's standard elsewhere on Wiki or what would make the most sense. I'm generally not interested in deleting information where it's not necessary to do so but am curious what others' thoughts are ~Malvoliox (talk | contribs) 02:42, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes we should retain the separate entries as people were on those respective offices, so if someone wants to see just the history of say US Congress, they'd only look in that section and similarly, if they are interested in all Mayors or state senators or something, they'd only look there.

We can add cross references that a person has also previously served as X in the respective sections going backwards chronologically, but we shouldn't remove them from the other sections themself. Raladic (talk) 02:53, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]