In April, the White House warned that bills targeting LGBTQ kids and gender-affirming care for youth set a dangerous precedent.īiden announced a new coordinator to train schools on how to deal with book bans, the impact they have on LGBTQ kids and how they violate civil rights laws. Some states have banned teachers of younger children from discussing gender or sexuality and conservative lawmakers have proposed or passed laws restricting drag performances. Republican-led states have signed a flurry of bills targeting transgender youth. We are not relenting one single second." REPUBLICAN BANS "LGBTQ Americans, especially children, you're loved, you're heard and this administration has your back," Biden said. cities and grounding flights.īiden also announced new measures Thursday to help schools and LGBTQ kids navigate book bans, community centers fight threats, transgender youth access better care, and urged Congress to pass the Equality Act.
The president was expected to deliver remarks on the issue at a White House party on Thursday evening, but the event was pushed back to Saturday due to smoke from the Canadian wildfires.įorest fires continued to burn across Canada on Thursday as the country endured its worst-ever start to wildfire season, sending a smoky haze billowing across U.S. They're not somebody's else's kids, they're all our kids," he told reporters during a news conference. "These are our kids, these are our neighbors.
"It's an appeal to fear and it's an appeal that is totally, thoroughly unjustified, ugly," he said.īiden also criticized a flurry of Republican bills targeting the community, and particularly transgender youth. "We have some hysterical and, I would argue, prejudiced, people" engaged in targeting LGBTQ people, Biden said. WASHINGTON, June 8 (Reuters) - President Joe Biden warned Thursday about "ugly" attacks from "hysterical" people who are targeting LGBTQ+ Americans, as he announced new measures intended to curb book bans and rising hate crimes.
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