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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on June 27, 2022 More and more congressional staffers are openly identifying as nonbinary, LegiStorm data shows. For over a decade, LegiStorm collected data on staffer gender without needing any option other than female or male. That changed in June 2019, when LegiStorm received its first confirmation of a nonbinary staffer using they/them pronouns. Since then, LegiStorm has seen a steady rise in those who identify as nonbinary and now lists two dozen current and former congressional and state staffers as nonbinary. While these individuals occasionally self-report their gender to LegiStorm, the data is collected mainly on the basis of any they/them pronouns that staffers list on their social media accounts or in other biographies. It's unclear how much of the increase is due to more nonbinary individuals being hired in political offices and how much is due to staffers feeling increasingly safe to openly identify as nonbinary at work and on social media. In 2020, Oklahoma State Rep. Mauree Turner (D) made history as the first openly nonbinary state legislator in U.S. history. A handful of lobbyists also list they/they pronouns on social media or biographies. No members of U.S. Congress have been openly nonbinary. Some people and organizations who "caught our eye" last week:- Steve Dwyer, Digital Director/Senior Policy Adviser, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) (current staffer), Reynold Schweickhardt, Strategic Adviser, House Chief Administrative Officer (former staffer), and Melissa Dargan, Legislative Aide, Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) (former staffer) – Bravo!
The fixers
- Sean Riley, Chief of Staff, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) (current staffer) – Uh oh!
The faker - Casey Lucier, Investigative Counsel, Jan. 6th Committee (current staffer) – Bravo!
The exposer
Hill Hires - Tucker Knott, Rep. Connie Conway (R-CA), Senior Adviser
- Lizz Shavers, Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL), Scheduler
- Mary Huang, Senate Commerce Committee's Communications, Media and Broadband Subcommittee, Counsel
- Elizabeth O'Bagy, Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE), Senior Adviser, Foreign Policy
Hill Departures - Jaime Lizárraga, formerly Senior Adviser/Member Services Director to the House Speaker
(now Commissioner at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission) - Julie Nickson, formerly Chief of Staff to Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA)
(now at the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network)
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Top hashtags of the week
- #scotus – (204 mentions)
- #titleix – (109 mentions)
- #roevwade – (99 mentions)
- #roevswade – (84 mentions)
- #safercommunities – (76 mentions)
- #fy23ndaa – (67 mentions)
- #pride – (60 mentions)
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