Mother Breaks Down in Tears While Confronting Mike Pence Over LGBQT+ Stance
Mike Pence over his LGBTQ+ policies after he claimed "radical gender ideology" had "taken hold in too many public schools."The former vice president was challenged by Melissa McCollister, a professor of social work, during a NewsNation town hall moderated by Leland Vittert in Chicago.
Pence has been on the campaign trail in early primary states as he looks to bolster support for his 2024 Republican nominee campaign.
Pence was discussing policies that require teachers to refer to students by their preferred pronouns and gender identities, rules that vary from state to state.McCollister, who was in tears as she appeared via video link from Des Moines, Iowa, told the former VP she is an "LGBTQ member" and has trans individuals in her family, going on to question what Pence would do to protect LGBTQ+ people."Recent anti-LGBTQ bills have been signed into law all around this United States, including here in Iowa.
So far, in 2023, 15 transgender individuals and gender-nonconforming people have been murdered. The vast majority of those people have been Black and Latinx transgender women." Newsweek has at this stage been unable to verify the number and the ethnicities of transgender people killed in Iowa so far this year.She continued: "It is very hard for me to ask these questions after just hearing what I heard.
