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[[Image:Midge Potts at State of the Union protest.jpg|thumb|Midge Potts speaks at a protest during the [[2007 State of the Union Address]].]]
'''Midgelle Regina Potts''', known as '''Midge Potts''', is a [[transgender]] peace activist<ref name="Tribune">((cite news
 | title = Midge Potts seeks change
 | url = http://www.columbiatribune.com/2006/Apr/20060416News018.asp
 | work = [[Columbia Daily Tribune]]
 | date = April 16, 2006
 | accessdate = 2007-04-11
 |archiveurl = https://archive.today/20061025225224/http://columbiatribune.com/2006/Apr/20060416News018.asp <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = 2006-10-25))</ref> and [[United States Navy|Navy]] veteran who ran as a Progressive Party ([[Green Party of the United States|Green Party]]) candidate in the [[United States Senate election in Missouri, 2010|2010 Missouri Senate election]].

==Biography==
Potts was born in on January 10, 1969 in [[Gainesville, Missouri]].

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.  She now lives off of [[Social Security (United States)|Social Security]] disability benefits.<ref name="Reuters">((cite news|first=David |last=Alexander |title=Transgender Navy vet protests war in Congress |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-usa-pink/transgender-navy-vet-protests-war-in-congress-idUSEIC55561920070405 |publisher=[[Reuters]] |date=April 7, 2007 |accessdate=2007-04-11 ))</ref>

After her discharge Potts reportedly married and had a child, before divorcing in 2003.  After the divorce, Potts began living as a woman full-time, and while she began her transition by taking supplements to alter her body's hormones to be more female, she underwent [[Sex reassignment therapy#Hormone therapy|conventional hormone therapy]].<ref name="kabel">((Cite news |url=http://www.missourileadership.com/story/2006/4/17/62425/2902 |title=Blunt's Bane: Transgender candidate answers call |first=Marcus |last=Kabel |periodical=Missouri Leadership |date=April 16, 2006 |accessdate=2007-11-20 ))</ref>

She unsuccessfully ran in Missouri's primary for the 7th District Congressional seat<ref name="mo-sos-2006-08-23">((Cite web |url=http://www.sos.mo.gov/enrweb/allresults.asp?eid=173 |title=Official Election Returns: State of Missouri Primary Election, Tuesday, August 08, 2006 | publisher=Missouri Secretary of State |date=August 23, 2006 |accessdate= October 20, 2010 ))</ref> as a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] in 2006 against [[incumbent]] Republican Congressman [[Roy Blunt]].  Potts received 4294 votes which equated to 7.2 percent of the vote in the Republican primary in the southwest Missouri district.

Potts announced on June 27, 2009, that she would run for the seat being vacated by retiring senator [[Kit Bond]] in 2010.<ref name="senateannouncement">((cite web|url=http://www.gp.org/candidates/display-pr.php?ID=3 |title=Midge Potts Announces She Will Run For Missouri's US Senate Seat |date=2009-06-27 |publisher=Green Party |accessdate=27 November 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091008201656/http://www.gp.org/candidates/display-pr.php?ID=3 |archivedate=8 October 2009 ))</ref> Potts had no recordable votes in that election.<ref>http://s1.sos.mo.gov/CMSImages/ElectionResultsStatistics/AllRacesGeneralNovember2010.pdf ((Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022))</ref> 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 ((sic|incum|bant|expected=incumbent)), Roy Blunt, in my home state of Missouri."<ref>((cite web | url-access=limited  |archive-url = https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/facebook/379792585435251/798958026852036 |archive-date = 2022-04-30| url = https://www.facebook.com/MidgePottsForPresident2016/posts/798958026852036 |title = Midge Potts for Vice-President with #2020hindsight on Facebook  |website=[[Facebook]]))((cbignore))((User-generated source|certain=yes|date=March 2022))</ref>

== References ==
((Reflist))

== External links ==
*[http://www.midgepotts.com/ Midge Potts for US Senate Campaign Website]
*[http://www.midgepotts.com Potts' website to promote her lectures]

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