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She said she had been ridiculed.

Across the U.S., transgender and other queer people are grappling with the fact that Americans voted in large numbers for a candidate who openly ridiculed them on the campaign trail, and a political party that spent millions on anti-LGBTQ+ attack ads.

“They ridiculed us and belittled us,” she said of her opponents, adding that they called her “every depraved slur in the book.”

Bonta’s messsage was one of defiance in the face of a sweeping defeat for Democrats and a stinging one for Vice President Kamala Harris, a Californian who was ridiculed by Trump as a “radical left lunatic who destroyed San Francisco.”

She was overlooked for rides, verbally abused and ridiculed by other staff at her stables, but still went on to become the first professional jockey to ride a winner in British Flat racing when, aged 22, she guided The Goldstone to victory at Salisbury in 1978.