People around the world marked International Transgender Day of Visibility Monday. Here in the U.S., thousands gathered nationwide as trans and nonbinary communities fight back against repeated attacks by the Trump administration. This is 17-year-old Lorelei Crean.

Lorelei Crean: “They are trying to criminalize our existence. You see that even on Trump’s first day in office. He passed an executive order declaring that there’s only male and female and eliminated the option of X gender markers on passports. That was a direct attempt to erase trans people. Then you saw it with his ban on gender-affirming care for people under 19. That’s again trying to erase the existence of trans people, by denying them lifesaving healthcare. We see over and over again that the Trump administration is targeting trans people in order to attempt to erase us. And that’s why we are showing up, to show them that this is not going to happen, that we are visible, showing our visibility, that he is not going to erase us, no matter how hard he tries.”