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June 30, 2016

Two Trans Women Become First to Win Major-Party Congressional Primaries
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Two transgender women have been nominated by Democratic primary voters
in Utah and Colorado to challenge Republican incumbents for their
congressional seats in November. Thirty-year-old Misty Snow of Utah and
33-year-old Misty Plowright of Colorado are the nation's first openly
transgender candidates to win a major-party congressional primary in
U.S. history.


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