A St. Bonaventure alum is now the first openly transgender person elected to a state legislature in US history.

Democrat Danica Roem defeated 26-year incumbent Republican Bob Marshall to become a delegate in the Virginia state legislature.

Marshall sponsored a bill that would have restricted which bathrooms Roem and other transgender people could use.

"To every person who has ever been singled out, who has ever been stigmatized, who has ever been the misfit, who's ever been the kid in the corner, who's ever needed someone to stand up for them when they didn't have a voice of their own because there is no one else with them, this one is for you,” Roem said in her victory speech Tuesday night.

Roem is a former journalist and a 2006 graduate of St. Bonaventure University.