Virginia’s largest student-led LGBTQ rights group on Monday announced it will protest school board meetings across the state in response to the rise in anti-LGBTQ rhetoric from the Trump-Vance administration 

“Since taking office, the Trump-Musk administration has unleashed a barrage of attacks against LGBTQIA+ students,” said Conifer Selintung of the Pride Liberation Project in a statement. “They have attacked discrimination protections in Title IX, targeted transgender athletes, attempted to strip funding for life-saving gender affirming care, and tried to whitewash history. The Trump-Musk administration’s obsession with queer young people is already impacting our lives. Defying medical consensus, multiple hospitals suspended gender affirming care last month.”

The Pride Liberation Project press release included statements from students across Virginia.

“These executive orders are attacking our communities instead of focusing on the real issues in our schools,” said Red O’Brien, a Virginia Beach junior who is planning to rally at their school board meeting.

“I’m an adult–it’s crazy and invasive that legislators can stop me from getting lifesaving healthcare,” said Everest Clauberg, a Virginia Commonwealth University student who receives gender-affirming care from VCU Endocrinology.

VCU Children’s Hospital of Richmond on Feb. 25 announced it would resume gender-affirming care for existing patients as deemed appropriate.

The Pride Liberation Project in recent years has organized more than 90 student-led protests across Virginia.

By ELLIE WOLFE | Hours before it was scheduled to take place, Project 2025 author Kevin Roberts canceled his controversial speaking event at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law in Baltimore.

The Monday night visit, organized by the Republican Law Society, was the subject of student outcry, counter-events and even a scheduled protest outside the law school building downtown. Though some students and university officials said the event would reinforce freedom of speech, it drew criticism from those who oppose Roberts’s stances on marriage equality and abortion access.

Roberts canceled his talk due to an illness, according to a spokesperson for the law school, and it’s unclear whether it’ll be rescheduled.

The rest of this article can be found on the Baltimore Banner’s website.

Several hundred people took to the streets of D.C. on Saturday to protest the Trump-Vance administration’s policy proposals and executive orders targeting the transgender community.

The Transgender Unity Rally, organized by the Transgender Unity Coalition, began outside of the U.S. Capitol with speeches and continued with a march to the White House.

Speakers at the rally included activists and organizers as well as Georgetown University professor Chloe Schwenke. Schwenke served as a political appointee in the Obama administration working for the U.S. Agency for International Development.

“USAID has been destroyed,” Schwenke stated. “And with it, the aid that goes out to LGBTQIA people around the world. Some of that aid is literally there to keep them alive. The women, the children, the men who have AIDS: They will not get their medication. They will die. And this administration is okay with that policy. “

“They are now deciding how to deny visas to people who want to come to World Pride here in Washington, D.C.,” Schwenke continued. “They do not want transgender people coming to Washington. And they do not want transgender people coming to Los Angeles as athletes or even as spectators for the Olympics in 2028. They are working on that now. How to keep trans people out of America, even as visitors.”

Other speakers at the event included Hope Giselle-Godsey.

“Too many of us have come here today in an effort to protest for things that we should not have to beg for,” Giselle-Godsey said. “Our civil rights, our children, our medical care, access and resources and the ability to fight for a country that doesn’t give a damn about us.”

“We have been here, we will always be here,” Giselle-Godsey continued. “And there is no legislation, there is no piece of paper, document or thing that ‘that Orange’ can sign that is going to make us disappear.”

D.C. resident Emmett Livingstone spoke about the need for resistance and non-compliance.

“As individuals in our various communities and workplaces, I encourage you all to be as irritating and hard to remove as a pebble in their shoe, a grain of sand in their eye, or even better . . . be glitter,” Livingstone said.

“Everyone,” Livingstone continued. “let’s race to support each other and grind their efforts to deny us to a halt. Do not go quietly. Correct misinformation when you hear it. Even a simple, ‘Hey man, that’s not okay.’”

“Trump is not a king, Elon is not our president,” Livingstone declared. “I call on all of you to resist in any way you can, big or small. Be the glitter they cannot get rid of and never let anyone dull your shine.”

“President Trump is set on fulfilling all of the promises of Project 2025, but I have a promise for him and his cronies. I promise that we are not going away. I promise that we will not be silent. Today we show the world that we are Americans too and we will not be denied. We’re here, we’re queer. They will get used to it.” Livingstone concluded to applause.

Following the speakers, participants began marching down Constitution Avenue chanting, “out of the closets and into the streets.”

The group of several hundred protesters peacefully marched on Constitution Avenue holding handmade signs and carrying trans and rainbow flags. The march ended on the Ellipse on the south side of the White House.

A video of the speeches was posted to YouTube by the Transgender Unity Coalition and can be viewed here: