Transgender people running for office have faced increased challenges to their candidacy as attacks on trans rights escalate. Joanna Whaley was on the phone with a member of her campaign team when she received an email from the county clerk’s office saying that her candidacy was being challenged. Frank Liberati, a fellow Democratic candidate for Michigan state representative, had filed a complaint against Whaley, a transgender woman, alleging that she had made a “false statement” and skirted