A first for the Washington House.

Jaelynn Scott is likely to win a Washington state House seat, which would make her the first out Black trans woman to sit in any U.S. state legislature. For trans readers watching chamber after chamber pass preemptive bans, a Black trans woman with a vote in Olympia is a concrete shift in who holds the floor. Erin in the Morning reports the district race is poised to go her way. This is still a local House election, not a national coronation: one seat, one roll-call button, in a state that already has a thicker queer bench than most. Firsts in a legislature last longer than a news cycle. They sit through markup, through the next session, through the bills that never make the cable chyron. Scott would be that first. The rest of the work is the job she ran for.