More than a week into Pride Month, the new Virginia governor has made some deliberate — if highly cautious — outreach to a community that he once embraced as a private equity executive but hardly courted in last year’s campaign.
“I think one of the biggest challenges that we have is that we aren’t allowing our children to, in fact, be children,” Youngkin said at a news conference called to release a report on the state’s K-12 schools. “And they’re being forced into discussions that, in all candor, they’re not ready to be — they’re not ready to have, all in the name of wanting to enlighten them.
But Michael Berlucchi, the one advisory board member to attend, said the event allowed him to engage with a governor he described as “still learning about our community.” Holding a Pride reception two months after House Republicans killed an effort to repeal the state ban and replace it with an “affirmative right to marry is the equivalent of ‘thoughts and prayers’ without action,” said Del. Danica A. Roem , who in 2017 became the first openly transgender person to be elected to any U.S. statehouse.
But Flores said he feels confident that certain basic rights, such as the right to marry and adopt children, are secure in the commonwealth under Youngkin. Flores attended the mansion lunch and said while Youngkin made no policy statements or promises, the governor seemed to listen as some guests said they would continue to push for the same-sex marriage ban’s repeal.
Youngkin opened with a well-practiced spiel about his work to slash taxes, improve schools and wrestle the best budget possible out of a divided General Assembly. He threw out stats about higher workforce participation rates and shorter wait times at the Department of Motor Vehicles, which he said averaged 35 minutes when he took office in January.
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