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Whitmer has long been a supporter of LGBTQ+ rights. In an interview with Pride Source at last year’s Motor City Pride, the governor shared that she first became an ally to the LGBTQ+ community when she found out another member of her family is gay. Gretchen Whitmer and her college-attending daughters give a Washington Post writer unusual access to a family discussion about abortion rights, sexual orientation and staying in Michigan.

Shortly after the death of my husband, Frank Fitzgerald, our daughter came out to me as gay. My connection to the United Church of Christ helped me to better understand my daughter and embrace. Whitmer, whose elder daughter came out publicly as gay in the Washington Post last year, described this relationship to me in the context of how she pitched an expansion of L.G.B.T.Q.

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Whitmer, whose daughter, Sherry, is openly gay, said she hopes the new law will send a message to LGBTQ people and their loved ones that, “if you’re looking for a place that will respect you. Gretchen Whitmer and her college-attending daughters give a Washington Post writer unusual access to a family discussion about abortion rights, sexual orientation and staying in Michigan.

Six days after the Supreme Court ruling June 24 that reversed the nearly half-century-old Roe v. Wade decision, the governor and her offspring -- Sherry, 20, and Sydney, 18 -- sat with Ruby Cramer at the governor's state-owned home on Mackinac Island for "conversations [that] were different, more immediate and personal" than previously.

The Page One article Sunday presents a campaign-year profile of the Michigan leader's public and private roles:. But she was also a mother to two young women, navigating the consequences of America's new reality inside her own home. When she talked about abortion access, Whitmer was also talking to and about her daughters. The girls are close, with birthdays only 19 months apart. Both are students at the University of Michigan.

Sherry and Sydney have grown up with a active shooter protocols and the threat of political violence. Now, sitting on the porch overlooking the Straits of Mackinac, Whitmer heard the girls consider possibilities that frightened her. She also heard something she knew, but didn't expect her eldest daughter to tell a reporter. Sherry said she had changed her mind about the birth control. She thought no at first, because she didn't need it, really.

The risk of unwanted pregnancy "is not a thing that's on my mind all the time. Sherry is out to family and friends but not on "the national scene," as her mom puts it. She recently told the family she was ready to share [her sexual orientation] in public, too, though Whitmer didn't know she was going to do it here on the island. The girls' stepdad, recently retired dentist Marc Mallory, was in the three-story house but didn't join the porch interview.

Sherry Whitmer worries that the legality of same-sex marriage also may be at risk, based on a possible Supreme Court review suggested by Justice Clarence Thomas in his opinion concurring with the recent abortion decision. The Whitmer family has been in Michigan for five generations. Seated between the two girls, Whitmer put an arm around each daughter.

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