President Joe Biden addresses a joint session of Congress, with vice president Kamala Harris (L) and House speaker Nancy Pelosi (R) on the dais. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
In his first address to a joint session of Congress Wednesday night (28 April), Joe Biden came with a simple message for trans youth: He has your back.
The Democratic US president struck a hopeful tone for his first address 100 days into his presidency. One certain to resonate with an America exhausted by the coronavirus pandemic, a shaken economy and years of brittle partisanship.
But after promoting his various blockbuster plans to reshape America to a room with more chairs than people, he took his address to where no US president has done before.