A small but determined coalition of groups is watching and fighting back against the Trump administration’s changes, from the Human Rights Council and ACLU, to the National Center for Transgender Equality, the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, the National LGBTQ Task Force, and many, many more community-based organizations engaged in vital work to protect and expand transgender people’s rights. In the words of Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, on Friday:
“Transgender people already know the Trump-Pence administration is dedicated to stripping away our rights. Their cruelty is only made more evident as they continually go after the most vulnerable among us.”