Our trans neighbors urgently need more federal protections, with Trump trying to spread fear and designate trans people as terrorists—and the Supreme Court joining Trump’s administration in threatening people’s passports and basic rights.

We need massive public pressure to push Congress to defend trans people and pass policies such as:

• The Equality Act and the Justice For All Act, which would expand civil rights law to include anti-discrimination protections for people on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation.

• The Transgender Health Access Act, which would increase access to life-saving gender-affirming care and invest in training providers to deliver that care. More than half of U.S. states have enacted some kind of ban on evidence-based, medically necessary healthcare—endangering the lives and well-being of more than 40% of all young trans Americans.

• The Fit to Serve Act, which would reverse Trump’s ban on transgender people in the military and protect trans servicemembers from being disqualified or removed from the military simply because they’re transgender. Right now, trans members of the Air Force are suing the U.S. government for illegally revoking the retirement pensions they’re owed.

• The Pride in Mental Health Act to improve mental health care for LGBTQ+ youth. According to the Trevor Project, about 40% of trans young people seriously considered suicide in the past year and only half who wanted mental health care were able to access it. Adding to this emergency, Trump has shut down the national LGBTQ+ suicide hotline.

• The Youth Homelessness Guaranteed Income Pilot Program Act, which will address rising youth homelessness by providing unhoused people with monthly direct cash assistance for two years. LGBTQ+ youth have a 120 percent higher likelihood of experiencing homelessness compared to others.

Please add your name now to demand Congress pass policies to protect trans people from growing attacks.