Sarah McBride will be the first openly transgender member of Congress, ABC Projects

Delaware State Senator Sarah McBride will be the first openly transgender person elected to Congress, ABC News reports.

After more than three years in the state Senate, she will represent Delaware's only congressional district in the House of Representatives, which also marked a historic first for transgender representation in government.

Previously, McBride was the national spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaign and served in the offices of former Gov. Jack Markell and the late Attorney General Beau Biden, as well as interning in the Obama-Biden White House.

McBride has emphasized that her goal was not to make history as the first transgender member of Congress: “My day-to-day focus is not on explaining gender identity to people,” she said in a previous interview with ABC News. “My daily focus is on delivering tangible results for the constituents I serve.”

She said her focus was on policy, rattling off a list of plans on affordable health care, affordable housing and child care, reproductive rights and more.

Her victory comes amid a wave of anti-LGBTQ legislation in states across the country and increasing rhetoric against the transgender community. No stranger to the debate, McBride says she's used to working with people who have voted against LGBTQ rights and hold positions in the Delaware General Assembly that “I might personally find hurtful.”

McBride entered the congressional race with the support of top Delaware lawmakers like Sens. Chris Coons and Tom Carper, the support of LGBTQ advocacy groups like the HRC and her ties to the Biden family. President Joe Biden wrote the foreword to her 2018 memoir, and she called his late son Beau one of her mentors.

McBride's seat was held by Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, who also supported McBride, who had announced she was running for U.S. Senate to fill the retiring Carper's seat.