White House Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre to LGBTQ+ Community ‘President Has Their Back’

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre made passionate remarks at the beginning of Friday’s White House press briefing when she highlighted Republicans’ assault on LGBTQ+ Americans.
Her perspective on the issue matters significantly since she is the first out member of the LGBTQ+ community to hold her position.
Jean-Pierre said, “I just want to take a step back a moment and really call out the shameful, hateful, and dangerous attacks that we have been seeing on the LGBTQI community as we’ve seen this week and also last week.”
She mentioned that a speaker at the Conservative Political Action Conference recently called for eradicating transgender people and she is surprised how not even a single national Republican leader has condemned the language.
Jean-Pierre did not forget to point to Iowa and Tennessee, where GOP legislatures are attacking marriage equality protections for same-sex couples. She also noted that on the 70th day of the year, more than 450 anti-LGBTQ+ bills had been introduced at the state level. The press secretary asked Americans to put themselves in the shoes of young trans kids.
According to her statement, “Just in Florida alone, Republicans introduced 20 bills on a single day to roll back the rights of the LGBTQ community. One of those bills would give the state the right to remove kids from their parents just because that kid is transgender.”