Transgender Candidates Poised to Make History in 2018 Elections In the U.S. this year, 43 transgender candidates have run for political offices. Those numbers have been described as "unprecedented." Four have won their primary at the statehouse level, and twenty-three have yet to face their voters. Reuters reports that one of the candidates in three states Kim Coco Iwamoto is up for Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor of Hawaii. Christine Hallquist seeks the Democratic nomination for governor of Vermont. Alexandra Chandler is one of ten Democrats running in Massachusetts' Third Congressional District. Christine Hallquist, via Reuters Transgender rights Raffi Freedman-Gurspan, National Center for Transgender Equality, via Reuters