The Pentagon has ordered an immediate ban on transgender military recruits and halted all gender-affirming medical procedures for active-duty military. Legal groups, including Human Rights Campaign, have filed lawsuits against Trump’s anti-trans EO on behalf of military members. On Friday, the Education Department ordered an end to programs that support transgender students.

Here in New York, trans youth and their allies held a massive rally in Union Square to defend trans rights amid recent moves by local hospitals to halt gender-affirming care. This is 14-year-old Niro.

Niro: “As a preexisting NYU Langone patient, the recent events concerning NYU and the orange in office is really upsetting, though I’m not directly as affected as others who recently have been denied healthcare. This is pure discrimination. This is offensive. This should not be allowed. And I want to finish by saying that we, as a community, will not stop fighting this fight!”