White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre comments on the state-wide walkout by Virginia high school students who are protesting the Virginia Governor’s recent anti-transgender guidelines for schools.
REPORTER: “Students across Virginia today walked out of their classroom to protest the Governor's new guidelines restricting the rights of transgender students, is the White House with these students?
JEAN-PIERRE: “So I haven't seen those reports but you know, this is a president that supports the LGBTQIA+ community and has been supporting that community for, for some time now, as Vice President, as Senator and certainly as President now. And he speaks always, always is proud to speak out against the mistreatment of that community. We believe and he believes transgender youth should be allowed to, to be, to be able to go to school freely, to be able to express themselves freely, to be able to have the protections that they need to be who they are. Again, I have not seen these reports but I can, we can say with all confidence and you all know have covered him for some time, when it comes to this community, he is a partner and he is a strong ally, as well as the Vice President.”
