This is a list of openly transgender, intersex, and nonbinary officeholders by office in the United States. The first transgender public officeholder in the United States was Joanne Marie Conte, elected to Arvada, Colorado's City Council in 1991.
As of January 2025, the highest-ranking public official is Sarah McBride, who represents Delaware's at-large congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. The highest ranking appointed official was Rachel Levine, who was an Assistant Secretary for Health from 2021 to 2024.
This list is arranged chronologically by politicians' first years in each office. Some officeholders listed were not elected while out as transgender, and either came out or were outed at a later date.
, 77 transgender, non-binary, intersex, and genderqueer officials served in public elected positions. This represented a nearly fivefold increase from 2018, when only 16 openly transgender individuals had been elected to office in the United States. On November 7, 2017, eight transgender individuals were elected to public office. This is the most transgender individuals elected to office in a single day.