Midge Potts

Midgelle Regina Potts, known as Midge Potts, is a transgender peace activist[1] and Navy veteran who ran as a Progressive Party (Green Party) candidate in the 2010 Missouri Senate election.

Potts served aboard the destroyer tender USS Yosemite (AD-19) off the coast of Kuwait during the Gulf War.

It was there that Potts was exposed to evaporated mercury in an engine room aboard the ship, and was offered an honorable discharge after failing to get treatment.

Potts announced on June 27, 2009, that she would run for the seat being vacated by retiring senator Kit Bond in 2010.

[6] On March 23, 2015, Potts announced on Facebook possibly seeking another attempt at the Senate seat by stating "Last week, I made an announcement on several Green Party Fb pages stating that I have firmly decided to NOT SEEK THE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION in 2016, and instead will most likely run for US Senator against Republican incumbant [sic], Roy Blunt, in my home state of Missouri.

Midge Potts speaks at a protest during the 2007 State of the Union Address .