“I was just really hoping to give our students ... a moment to shine and feel loved, and know that there is a place for them in public schools,” said Andrew LeValley, the teacher who came up with the idea.
Becca Balint will also be the first member of the LGBTQ+ community in the post.
The gubernatorial nominee sets her sights on climate change.
Republican Gov. Phil Scott added that the new ID policy “is consistent with our Vermont values of inclusion and acceptance.”
She lost the Vermont race to popular Republican incumbent Phil Scott.
Hallquist, the first out trans person to be a major party's nominee for governor, has received about a dozen such threats.
Hallquist is the first transgender person to win a major party's gubernatorial nomination anwhere in the U.S.
