WASHINGTON — Vermont Rep. Becca Balint said Wednesday that last week's elections produced "the queerest Congress in history that we know of," in a short video posted to her account on X.

"We will have more members of the LGBTQ Equality Caucus than we've ever had," Balint, a Democrat, said in the video.

"And why does it matter? It's not about identity politics," she said. "It's about the fact that the Republican Party for four years here in Congress has been actively beating up on queer and trans people. And America hit back."

In the post that accompanied the video, Balint wrote that Republicans "have been demonizing our community" for four years and that "the American people fought back."

"I'm so proud of us, America," she said in the video. "It's all of us together."

Balint did not say how many members the caucus will have or which newly elected lawmakers she was counting.

Balint won a third term in Vermont's lone U.S. House seat last week, The Signal reported.