The demonstrators gathered during rallies in the north of the County of San Diego on Saturday in opposition to the Trump administration policies which target the LGBTQ + community and make the group’s key protections retreat.
“Each human should have dignity, and they should all be respected,” said Karen Pohl, a naval veteran who lives in San Diego and attended a rally held outside the Oceanside Civic Center.
The event was one of the six events in places in the county of North. The rallies took place during the International Day against Transphobia, Homophobia and Biphobia – a world of global action against LGBTQ + discrimination – although participants also expressed their fear for the Trump administration policies targeting immigrants.
Transgender and immigrants “are number one objectives and two of this administration,” said PoHL.
The participants in the rally held signs made by hand with sentences like “Protect Trans Kids” and “Trans Rights Are Human Rights” because they sang that “love, not hatred, makes America great”.
Saturday rallies were among the demonstrations organized by local activists who took place every weekend. Events are sometimes focused on a specific cause, such as immigrant rights or LGBTQ +protections, or aim to mobilize against Trump administration actions more generally.
“It is not only a question of” I do not like this president because he does not express my opinion, “said Max Plépi, Executive Director of the North County LGBTQ Resource Center, before the rally. “These are presidents violating the basis of democracy … Expulsion without regular procedure, the unprecedented attack on the LGBT community.”
From his first day of mandate in January, President Donald Trump signed many decrees which aimed to limit or eliminate the protections of the LGBTQ +community.
Last week, the Supreme Court ruled that Trump could begin to apply the policy of his administration, which prohibits the people of army and forces those who already serve.
“The adoption of a gender identity incompatible with the sex of an individual with the commitment of a soldier to an honorable, truthful and disciplined lifestyle, even in his personal life”, reads order.
And in March, Trump published an executive decree which prohibited Trans veterans from receiving care affirmed by the sexes through the Ministry of Veterans Affairs.
The resident of Oceanside, Irma Robinson, has a non -binary child and said that her child felt threatened since Trump was elected last November, highlighting his rhetoric and campaign promises that targeted the trans and non -binary community.
“It was just a blow for all of us, but even more for the LGBTQ community,” said Robinson. “Our children are definitely on the edge.”
And although many thought that California would be a safe refuge, some now question it.
On Friday, the North County LGBTQ Resource Center was informed that it would lose a state subsidy of around $ 500,000 from California Department of Health.
The budget proposed by the Governor of $ 322 billion would also reduce the financing of Planned Parenthood – funding which is also currently on the hash in the Federal Spending Bill under negotiation at Congress.
“We are hoping to hope that California’s state will protect what Trump is taking away,” said disposed. “I understand that we are in a deficit, but it is also the same story – the first thing that is reduced, it is services to people who cannot afford health care and other resources.”
Many participants in the rally said their concerns about the Trump administration go beyond a single action.
They are concerned about immigrants, reproductive health and the LGBTQ + community – as well as federal financing cuts and the Trump foreign policy, administration’s foreign policy to persuade women to have children.
For Ethan Gering during the Civic Center rally, it is increasingly clear that the actions of the federal government not only have an impact on a group.
“I think it has reached a point where everyone has the skin in the game,” said Giant.
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