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Debate over transgender rights grows more fraught in new Trump era

Transgender issues barely registered on voters’ lists of top policy priorities in 2024, according to polls. But as a front in America’s culture wars, the topic has become increasingly contentious. The growing visibility of transgender people in society and pop culture, and the spread of new ideas around sex and gender, particularly among young people, have led to emotional public debates about single-sex spaces and sports – and prompted a backlash on the right that’s gone into overdrive since President Donald Trump returned to office.

As part of his “war on woke,” Mr. Trump has enacted a flurry of policies directly impacting various aspects of life for transgender people. The president has issued executive actions barring transgender women from women’s sports teams and women’s prisons. He’s ordered the military to oust transgender soldiers and stop recruiting others. He’s banned federal funding for gender-transition medical treatments for minors, threatened to withhold funding from schools that “indoctrinate” children, and prevented transgender individuals from self-selecting their gender on passports and other official documents.

The barrage of actions has left members of the transgender community reeling, while Democrats have been divided over how to respond. “It’s truly terrifying,” says the Rev. Lazarus Jameson, a transgender pastor in Oregon. “Every trans person is asking, How are we going to survive?”