NASHUA - The state's first openly transgender legislator - who resigned days after being elected last November - is now being stripped of her local selectman seat.

Democrat Stacie Laughton said Wednesday night that her position as Ward 4 selectman - an elected role that she won during the 2011 municipal election - is being nullified after an opinion from the state Attorney General's Office determined that her previous criminal conviction has not been finally discharged under the law because of nearly $2,000 in unpaid restitution. "This has been a lifelong dream fulfilled, and now it is crashing down," Laughton said.

The nullification came the same day Laughton announced she was withdrawing her candidacy for the vacant Ward 4 state representative post - the same post she resigned from in November.

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