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After Trump’s Order on ‘Two Genders,’ Trans Rights Groups Turn to Taking Action [1]
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Date: 2025-02
Greenesmith said that while Trump’s executive order evokes a lot of anxiety and uncertainty, they believe that now is not the time to give into fear or catastrophization but rather to take action.
“The purpose of this administration, the extremist right-wing administration, is to cause fear and confusion in our community,” Greenesmith said. “We expect that they’re going to enact cruel and harmful policies directed at our humanity.”
Greenesmith urged their fellow trans-rights advocates to focus their energy on supporting the most vulnerable within the transgender community rather than on the new administration’s directives.
The Transgender Law Center will continue providing legal assistance to transgender people who are incarcerated, and plans are in place to secure more resources for the nonprofit’s legal help desk and hotline, they said.
“While this is a new administration, this work is not new. This bullying is not new. The persecution is not new,” Greenesmith continued. “We will continue to care for each other.”
At the Pacific Center for Human Growth, an LGBTQ nonprofit in Berkeley, workers are partnering with the national organization Advocates for Transgender Equality to host a “Know Your Trans Rights” conference at the end of February, said Lasara Firefox Allen, executive director of the Pacific Center. They said organizers will use the next month to see what the actual effects of Trump’s order will be.
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