One Hundred Days of Resistance

Today marks the one hundredth day since Donald Trump’s inauguration. For the trans community and our allies, many of the vicious attacks that his campaign promised against the trans community have come to pass. We’ve seen attacks on trans healthcare research and access, dismantling protections for Jóvenes LGBTQ + En escuelas, censura the very mention of trans people from our historia de la nacióny constante misinformation and lies spread by officials in the highest levels of our government.  

Su very first acts in office included executive orders which incorrectly define "sex" to exclude and erase transgender and intersex people, block our acceso a la salud, and attack the ability of young trans people to participate in public life.  As A4TE Policy Director Olivia Hunt has said, "Since January 20, the Trump administration has been on a mission to undermine well-established civil rights protections for people across the nation, to turn their values of hate, violence, and segregation into the official policies of the United States.” 

Lawless and unconstitutional anti-trans attacks

Our basic constitutional structure is under attack – and this administration has been using trans people as a scapegoat to do it. When Trump amenazada Maine Governor Janet Mills, claiming that he would cut off federal funding to the state, Governor Mills responded, “See you in court” as she stood up to Trump about protecting trans athletes. Subsequently, this administration weaponized the Department of Justice to demandar al estado. Federal funding - which has already been approved by Congress - should never be at risk from the whims of extremists. 

The Elon Musk-led team known as the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has also used clearly unconstitutional means to specifically target trans people by turning off funding for federal contracts and programs that are even tangencialmente relacionado to our existence. References to transgender people and the broader LGBTQI+ community have been systematically deleted from government websites, and there are serious concerns about the misuse of protected data to target trans people.  

Why are extremists attacking trans people? 

The ultimate goal of these attacks is to push trans people out of public life—forcing us back to a time when so many of us had to hide our true selves. The language of the executive orders that target our community is directly taken from Project 2025, and many of the architects of that plan are currently in posiciones de poder with this administration. These ideologues have been focused on focalización and scapegoating the trans community so that they can destroy the progress of the last few decades that organizations like A4TE fought hard for.  

This administration’s executive orders and department memos ignore basic realities, spread falsehoods, and threaten the lives and livelihoods of trans and intersex people, immigrants, disabled people, people who can give birth, youth, people of color, incarcerated people, and many more already marginalized groups—all in service of an agenda that seeks to remove us from society. This would drag the entire country backwards. 

How are trans people and our allies fighting back? 

But make no mistake—we do have power. We’ve also worked harder than ever before to safeguard our community, tell our stories, and fight for our most fundamental human rights. Trabajadores de la salud are pushing back to protect their trans patients and our life-saving healthcare. Parents are proclamando their love and support for their trans children. Scientists are protestando the destruction of their lifesaving research. After briefly pausing care thanks to the Trump administration’s intimidación, multiple hospitals have restarted seeing patients and providing the lifesaving trans healthcare that we need. At A4TE, we ran a wildly successful campaign to tell the Trump administration to leave our passports alone—and we sent over 62,000 public comments to prove it. And our staff, as well as our partner organizations, are fighting in the courts to protect our passports, defend trans servicemembers’ right to serve in the military, defend trans kids who want to play sports, push back against threats to our healthcare, Y mucho más..  

Those of us who are fighting for justice are under very real pressure. Powerful and wealthy people have been spending enormous amounts of money to demean our community, spread lies about us, and attack our most basic human rights. But we’re not giving up. State and local institutions—including schools, healthcare systems, universities, nonprofits, and civil rights enforcement agencies—must resist this pressure. In every state, we must organize our communities, support each other, and push our local leaders to take meaningful action to resist Trump's intimidation and protect trans lives.